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Equipment and Supplies, Hospital (6):
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)11 2010
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Modern Healthcare (40)31 2010
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Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift (160)13-14 2010
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All 832 hospital hand-held aneroid sphygmomanometers without exception were examined for their accuracy within a +/- 3 mmHg margin by comparing them to a certified mercury device. Of these, 59.9% were inaccurate, with the majority giving lower readings than noted on the mercury scale. The findings a...
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PMID: 20694766
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Health care facilities have procedures for cleaning patient care environments, but there is often confusion about the division of labor when it comes to cleaning responsibilities. In addition, systems to monitor cleaning effectiveness are frequently suboptimal. In 2007, a multidisciplinary task forc...
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PMID: 20435376
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided $1.1 billion to help fund comparative effectiveness research. Some of this money will be used to fund studies that will examine the effectiveness between drugs, medical devices and/or procedures for the same condition. The findings from thi...
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PMID: 20464853
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Modern Healthcare (40)10 2010
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Developing a disaster preparedness program is just the start of being able to properly respond to supply chain emergency situations. The best plans evolve based on lessons learned during an actual event. The four-level program implemented at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee shows how improved results...
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PMID: 20297621
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Over the past several years, the nearly $2 billion post-surgical woundcare market has been inundated with devices designed to accelerate healing and prevent infection. For materials managers, wound care nurses and others involved in product selection, keeping up with the changes can be a challenge....
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PMID: 20297620
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The amount of time nurses spend providing direct patient care seems to be continually eroding. So it's little wonder a survey conducted last year of critical care, OR nurses and nurse executives found that half of the 1600 respondents feel they spend too much time on supply chain duties. Most also s...
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PMID: 20297619
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Demand for the Emergency Department (ED) has increased, making the organization of work difficult. This quantitative, descriptive and documental study identifies and analyzes the characteristics of clinical care in the ED of a General Hospital in Ribeirão Preto, SP, in 2007, according to organizati...
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PMID: 20922325
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This paper describes real-time locating technology and its possible use in health care. Real time locating may be applied in different segments of everyday life, including hospitals (medical equipment and devices, locating patients, and alarm in case of emergency), working environmen...
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PMID: 20061250
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Health facilities management (22)12 2009
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Health facilities management (22)11 2009
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The Health service journal (119)6179 2009
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Modern Healthcare (39)36 2009
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Revista Medica de Chile (137)9 2009
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Examinations performed beside the bed of patients ("Point-of-care testing, POCT") provide immediate results and are simple to perform. The most common of these tests is the self control of blood glucose levels in diabetic patients. The use of these devices at the hospital level, introduces a new set...
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PMID: 20011970
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Health Data Management (17)9 2009
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An epidemiological investigation that used molecular tools confirmed the suspicion of a pseudo-outbreak of M. paraffinicum infection and/or colonization. The hospital water system was identified as the source of contamination....
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PMID: 19653819
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AAOHN Journal (57)9 2009
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Ceiling lifts have been introduced into health care settings to reduce manual patient lifting and thus occupational injuries. Although growing evidence supports the effectiveness of ceiling lifts, a paucity of research links indicators, such as quality of patient care or patient perceptions, to the...
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PMID: 19842612
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The financial and practical impact on healthcare provision of an ageing population, the growing pressure to design sustainable healthcare facilities, and the need for a more imaginative, innovative approach to planning healthcare buildings which meet both current and future demands,...
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PMID: 19711666
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With all aspects of hospital hygiene under the spotlight, Jonathan Baillie examines the important new role of Authorising Engineer (Decontamination), explains, with the help of experienced sterilisation/decontamination specialist Mick Compton, how the role developed, and discusses th...
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PMID: 19711667
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The theory of positive deviance holds that in any group, some people are more effective than others even when they have the same resources at hand. The object is to identify those people, see what they're doing differently and share it with the larger group. The Plexus Institute and the Robert Wood...
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PMID: 19777772
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Zentralblatt für Chirurgie (134)4 2009
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Modern Healthcare (39)26 2009
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Faced with increasing concerns about the likelihood of an influenza pandemic, healthcare systems have been challenged to determine what specific medical supplies that should be procured and stockpiled as a component of preparedness. Despite publication of numerous pandemic planning r...
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PMID: 21970033
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This is the sixth in a series of articles from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston describing one general medical unit's experiences with Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB). An initiative begun by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, TCAB...
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PMID: 19299992
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Healthcare informatics : the business magazine for information and communication systems (25)14 2009
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The market for RFID tracking in healthcare has been growing steadily and could expand exponentially in the four to five years. Healthcare organizations are tagging items to ensure clinicians can quickly find equipment. Forward-thinking CIOs are leveraging RFID to track surgical tools and devices, mo...
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PMID: 19266857
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Health Data Management (17)2 2009
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The authors propose a nurses' operational protocol to follow when dealing with a patient who has an allergy to latex in a surgical Ward, amplifying this protocol to the entire patient care areas in a hospital to provide integral treatment for such allergy patients. In this first article, the authors...
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PMID: 19354151
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Modern Healthcare (39)4 2009
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The Lancet (373)9659 2009
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The Lancet (373)9659 2009
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This study evaluated video scoring and feedback about scoring as a safety intervention among 6 nursing staff. The dependent variable was safety behavior on one-person transfers. Following baseline, 5 nursing staff participated in an information phase. A video scoring phase was then introduced for al...
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PMID: 20190918
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The weakness identification analysis revealed that the factual infrastructure available for effectuating national strategies varied between safety areas and approaches, basically reflecting differences between bureaucratic and network-based organizational models. At the local level, a contradiction...
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PMID: 19272141
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Der Chirurg (80)1 2009
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We report on fracture care of the lower limb in such patients with custom-made Ilizarov ring fixators. We found them suited to bear enormous weight-loading but that associated comborbidities can limit successful fracture care....
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PMID: 18853125
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Nursing Times (105)5 2009
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Analysis showed that the cost of implementing current RFID technology is too expensive for broad and sweeping implementation within the healthcare sector at this time. However, several example applications have been identified in which this technology can be effectively leveraged in a cost-effective...
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PMID: 19284172
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