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Clinical Quality &
Infection Control
February 2013
Editorial
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Vol. 2013 No. 1
features
1 10 Top Patient Safety Issues for 2013
1 Tips on Engaging Physicians in Major Process Changes
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1 10 Guiding Principles for Patient-Centered Care
Focus on Reducing Readmissions
10urning Heart Failure Into Heart Success: Transitioning CHF
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Patients to Home
11tudy: Wide Variation in Implementation of Strategies to Reduce
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Readmissions
11 Study Finds Social Factors Linked to Hospital Readmissions, Mortality
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How Health Systems Can Create a Robust, Enterprise-Wide Patient Safety
Program
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Report: Top Academic Medical Centers Have High Variation in Care Practices
14 Study: Higher Patient Satisfaction is Linked to Lower Hospital Readmissions
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The Joint Commission to Add 2 Medical/Surgical Hospital Requirements
14 CMS to Develop Survey on Patient Experience in the ED
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Study: 37% of Physicians Give in to Patients' Demands for Brand-Name Drugs
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Study: Surgery Generally More Cost-Effective Than Radiation for Prostate Cancer
15 Surgeons Make Preventable Mistakes 4,000 Times a Year, Study Says
Infection Control
16 Hospital Cleaning Protocol Has Limited Effect on Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
16 Risk Factors for Central Venous Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections
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16 Strategies to Prevent Multidrug-Resistant Organism Outbreaks
16 Study: 26% of C. Diff Patients Received Only Unnecessary Antimicrobials
17 7 Hospital and Health System CEOs: What Disruptive Innovation Means to Me
19 Which Hospital Markets Had the Best 2013 Value-Based Purchasing Results?
19 3 Simple Ways Hospitals Can Engage Patients in Their Care
21 Population Health Management is a Two-Way Street: Encouraging Patient
Engagement
21 Database of Downloadable Safety and Quality Tools & Resources Now Available
23 51 Hospitals With the Lowest 30-Day Mortality Rates For Pneumonia
23 Advertising Index
