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New Evaluation: Advanced Wound Care Dressings

Overview While treating and preventing patient wounds is an essential part of patient care, it is also a difficult one. If a patient has complex wounds that cannot heal with typical treatment, ...

Webinar | Enhancing Falls Prevention: Collaborative Informational Session

Overview Falls are relatively common in healthcare, accounting for 250,000 injuries and up to 11,000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Despite ongoing safety efforts, the rate of fal...

Venous Needle Dislodgement: Technological Solution to Fatal Hazard?

Overview As dialysis practices evolve to treat some patients at home with less supervision, new threats to safety emerge and existing risks may increase. The threat of venous needle dislodgemen...

Utilizing a PSO Learning System to Prevent Falls with AI Video Technology

Overview Although falls management programs are in place in many organizations, falls continue to be the top cause for claims at 40.4% among the top allegations in aging services according to t...

Serving Those Who Served: How Healthcare Leaders Can Support Women Veterans

Overview Women are the fastest growing group in the veteran population, with 2 million female veterans in the United States today. Women veterans make up an increasing share of all Veteran Affa...

Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment of Sepsis

Overview Sepsis is a relatively common condition with an estimated 1.7 million adults in the United States suffering from it each year, resulting in death for approximately 270,000 individuals....

How To: Hands-On Testing of Medical Devices

Overview The tragic death of a young child in a Philadelphia emergency room, caused by a malfunctioning medical device, gave birth to a new kind of organization fiercely committed to the safety...

Clinical Practice Guideline Development: Key Factors to Consider Using GRADE

Overview Clinical practice guidelines make recommendations about many aspects of patient care: risk assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, monitoring, and follow-up. Some recommendations ...

PSOs and Litigation: Maximize Your Protections

Overview Healthcare providers are challenged to protect sensitive patient safety information, while performing essential safety, risk, and quality work. Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) can ...