Browsing by Subject "safety"
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Building a safety culture in global health: lessons from Guatemala.
(BMJ global health, 2018-01)Programmes to modify the safety culture have led to lasting improvements in patient safety and quality of care in high-income settings around the world, although their use in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) ... -
Emerging treatment options to improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome: focus on losmapimod.
(Drug Des Devel Ther, 2015)Each year, despite optimal use of recommended acute and secondary prevention therapies, 4%-5% of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) experience relapse of ACS or other cardiovascular events including stroke, heart ... -
Implementation Analysis of a Patient Safety Program in a Pediatric Perioperative Unit in Guatemala
(2019)Background: Patient safety is critical to prevent medical errors and to improve clinical outcomes. The need to implement programs in patient safety is increasingly recognized as a prime component of healthcare delivery in ... -
Spatial Coherence-Based Adaptive Acoustic Output Selection for Diagnostic Ultrasound
(2022)The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides guidelines for maximum acoustic output for diagnostic ultrasound imaging through metrics such as intensity, Mechanical Index (MI), and Thermal Index (TI). However, even ... -
Systematic review of safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in patients with kidney disease.
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Wielding the Wand without Facing the Music: Allowing Utilization Review Physicians to Trump Doctors' Orders, but Protecting them from the Legal Risk Ordinarily Attached to the Medical Degree
(2010)This Note identifies a discrepancy in the law governing the decisionmaking that directs patient care. Seeking treatment that a third party will pay for, a patient needs not only a physician-prescribed course of treatment ...
