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5521. What keeps facilities from implementing best practices to prevent wrong-site surgery?: barriers and strategies for overcoming them

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Benchmarking
Health Facilities -- standards
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Task Performance and Analysis
Health Care Surveys
Organizational Policy
Process Assessment (Health Care)
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5522. Surgical fires: trends associated with prevention efforts

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Fires -- prevention & control
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- methods
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- trends
Academies and Institutes -- organization & administration
Databases, Factual
Disclosure
Fires -- statistics & numerical data
Guideline Adherence
Guidelines as Topic
Operating Rooms -- organization & administration
Risk Assessment
Safety Management
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- adverse effects
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5523. Wrong-patient medication errors: an analysis of event reports in Pennsylvania and strategies for prevention

Author(s):
Yang, Annie, author
Grissinger, Matthew, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2013]
Subject(s):
Electronic Prescribing
Medical Order Entry Systems
Medication Errors -- prevention & control
Medication Errors -- statistics & numerical data
Medication Systems, Hospital
Patient Identification Systems
Prescriptions
Risk Assessment
Self-Assessment
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5524. Update: are influenza, pneumonia, and vaccination rates improving in nursing home residents?

Author(s):
Bradley, Sharon M., author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2013]
Subject(s):
Cross Infection -- epidemiology
Cross Infection -- prevention & control
Health Personnel
Influenza Vaccines -- therapeutic use
Influenza, Human -- epidemiology
Nursing Homes
Pneumococcal Vaccines -- therapeutic use
Pneumonia -- epidemiology
Vaccination -- statistics & numerical data
Bronchitis -- epidemiology
Bronchitis -- prevention & control
Forecasting
Long-Term Care
Respiratory Tract Infections -- epidemiology
Respiratory Tract Infections -- prevention & control
Vaccination -- trends
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5526. Training suggested when changing brands of enteral feeding tubes

Author(s):
Wallace, Susan C., author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2014]
Subject(s):
Enteral Nutrition -- adverse effects
Enteral Nutrition -- instrumentation
Inservice Training
Intubation, Gastrointestinal -- adverse effects
Intubation, Gastrointestinal -- instrumentation
Intubation, Gastrointestinal -- methods
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5527. Successful strategies for prevention of bariatric and colectomy surgical site infections

Author(s):
Bradley, Sharon M., author
Hoffman, Regina M., author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2014]
Subject(s):
Bariatric Surgery
Colectomy
Surgical Wound Infection -- prevention & control
Hospitals
Outliers, DRG
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5528. Tracking ambulatory surgical facility cancellations and transfers: lessons learned from an 18-month collaboration

Author(s):
Gardner, Lea Anne, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, September 2014
Subject(s):
Appointments and Schedules
Interviews as Topic
Nursing Assessment
Patient Compliance
Patient Transfer -- statistics & numerical data
Preoperative Care -- nursing
Surgicenters -- statistics & numerical data
Ambulatory Care -- statistics & numerical data
Data Collection
Forecasting
Models, Statistical
Nurse's Role
Nursing Care
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Patient Care Planning
Patient Transfer -- economics
Patient Transfer -- trends
Quality Improvement
Surgical Procedures, Operative -- nursing
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

5529. Surgical site infection prevention utilizing patient screening and decolonization: the PA-HEN SSI prevention collaboration

Author(s):
Davis, James, author
Catanzaro, Mary, author
Edelmayer, Clare, author
Martin, Lynda, author
Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, author.
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, September 2014
Subject(s):
Hospitals
Infection Control -- methods
Patient Participation
Preoperative Care -- methods
Surgical Wound Infection -- epidemiology
Surgical Wound Infection -- prevention & control
Chlorhexidine -- therapeutic use
Decontamination
Interinstitutional Relations
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcal Infections -- diagnosis
Staphylococcal Infections -- prevention & control
Humans
United States

5530. A systems and behavioral approach to improve hand hygiene practice

Author(s):
Bradley, Sharon, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, December 2014
Subject(s):
Hand Hygiene -- organization & administration
Hand Disinfection
Hospitals
Infection Control
Systems Analysis
Behavior
Cross Infection -- prevention & control
Guideline Adherence
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Patient Safety
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States