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21. Connecting remote cardiac monitoring issues with care areas

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2009
Subject(s):
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory -- methods
Monitoring, Physiologic -- methods
Telemetry -- methods
Clinical Alarms -- standards
Communication
Electrocardiography, Ambulatory -- instrumentation
Equipment Failure
Monitoring, Physiologic -- instrumentation
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Management
Telemetry -- instrumentation
Humans
United States

23. Improving the safety of the blood transfusion process

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2010
Subject(s):
Blood Component Transfusion -- methods
Blood Transfusion -- methods
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Quality Control
Safety Management
Automatic Data Processing
Blood Banks
Blood Component Transfusion -- adverse effects
Blood Group Incompatibility
Patient Identification Systems
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Management
Transfusion Reaction
Humans
United States

24. Prevent the occurrence of bloodborne disease transmission associated with unsafe injection practices

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2011
Subject(s):
Blood-Borne Pathogens
Communicable Disease Control -- methods
Cross Infection -- prevention & control
Disease Transmission, Infectious -- prevention & control
Infection Control -- methods
Injections, Intravenous -- adverse effects
Cross Infection -- epidemiology
Cross Infection -- transmission
Equipment Contamination
Guideline Adherence
Needle Sharing -- adverse effects
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Factors
Syringes -- adverse effects
Humans
United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

25. Falls risk assessment: a foundational element of falls prevention programs

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Accidental Falls -- prevention & control
Program Development
Risk Assessment -- methods
Accidental Falls -- statistics & numerical data
Aged
Guideline Adherence
Health Status Indicators
Mobility Limitation
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Factors
Sensitivity and Specificity
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

26. Events associated with the prescribing, dispensing, and administering of medication loading doses

Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, c2012
Subject(s):
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Drug Administration Schedule
Drug Dosage Calculations
Drug Monitoring
Medication Errors -- prevention & control
Guideline Adherence
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Standard of Care
Time Factors
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

27. Comments from Pennsylvania medical professional societies on the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority's potential recommendations to prevent wrong-site surgery and the Authority's responses

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)
Societies, Medical
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

28. Infection control challenges: Pennsylvania nursing homes are making a difference through implementation of best practices

Author(s):
Feil, Michelle, author
Bradley, Sharon, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2013]
Subject(s):
Cross Infection -- epidemiology
Cross Infection -- prevention & control
Guideline Adherence
Infection Control -- methods
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Catheter-Related Infections -- epidemiology
Catheter-Related Infections -- prevention & control
Drug Resistance, Multiple
Hand Hygiene
Infection Control -- statistics & numerical data
Respiratory Tract Infections -- epidemiology
Respiratory Tract Infections -- prevention & control
Self-Assessment
Skin Diseases, Infectious -- epidemiology
Skin Diseases, Infectious -- prevention & control
Soft Tissue Infections -- epidemiology
Soft Tissue Infections -- prevention & control
Urinary Tract Infections -- epidemiology
Urinary Tract Infections -- prevention & control
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

29. Falls reduction and prevention update: Pennsylvania hospitals increase implementation of best practices

Author(s):
Feil, Michelle, author
Hunt, Christina, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2014]
Subject(s):
Accidental Falls -- prevention & control
Hospitals
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Accidental Falls -- statistics & numerical data
Data Collection
Medication Therapy Management
Patient Education as Topic
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States

30. Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers remain a top concern for hospitals

Author(s):
Feil, Michelle, author
Bisbee, Janette, author
Publication:
[Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, March 2015
Subject(s):
Hospitals
Pressure Ulcer -- epidemiology
Pressure Ulcer -- etiology
Pressure Ulcer -- prevention & control
Medical Errors -- prevention & control
Patient safety
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Risk Management
Humans
Pennsylvania
United States