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The wisdom and justice of not paying for" preventable complications"


PJ Pronovost, CA Goeschel, RM Wachter - JAMA, 2008 - Am Med Assoc
Linking errors to harm for the remaining complications is more complex. For
strategies built around the "not paid for preventable complications" concept to
be clinically and morally acceptable and to achieve the policy goal of ...
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Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals


SE Coffin, M Klompas, D Classen, KM Arias, K … - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 2008 - UChicago Press
Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens that cause healthcare-associated infections
(HAIs) pose an ongoing and increasing challenge to hospitals, both in the
clinical treatment of patients and in the prevention of the ...
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Medicare's decision to withhold payment for hospital errors: the devil is in the details

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RM Wachter, NE Foster, RA Dudley - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient …, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Although there is debate on how effective these strategies have been, it is
clear that they have not eradicated medical mistakes. Why not? Part of the
problem, of course, is that improving safety is really challenging. But ...
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Risk of misleading ventilator-associated pneumonia rates with use of standard clinical and …


M Klompas, M Kulldorff, R Platt - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008 - UChicago Press
Featured in LiveScience (logo) "Surviving Salmonella: What You Can Do" March 31,
2009 Reptile‐Associated Salmonellosis in Preschool‐Aged Children in
Michigan, January 2001–June 2003 Eden V. Wells, Matthew Boulton, William ...
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Intraarterial therapy for acute ischemic strokes


JG Belisle, VE McCollom, TL Tytle, JM … - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2009 - Elsevier
This is a retrospective analysis of data gathered from consecutive stroke
patients treated between June 2004 and April 2007. The following therapies were
used to treat acute ischemic stroke within 6 hours of symptom onset: ...
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Pay for performance in the intensive care unit-Opportunity or threat?*

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K Khanduja, DC Scales, NKJ Adhikari - Critical Care Medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia (KK), Department of Anaesthesia, Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Assistant Professor (DCS),
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care and Department of Medicine, ...
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Effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibition with infliximab on lipid levels and insulin …

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… , P Oustamanolakis, N Malliaraki, K Karmiris, … - European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Cited Here...: TNF-α is a critical mediator of inflammation with an important
role in metabolic profile and insulin resistance. The regulation of these
parameters by TNF-α in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is, however, ...
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Programmed cell death and cancer

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Y Sun, ZL Peng - British Medical Journal, 2009 - pmj.bmj.com
Programmed cell death (PCD) is an important terminal pathway for cells of
multicellular organisms, and is involved in a variety of biological events that
include morphogenesis, maintenance of tissue homeostasis, and elimination ...
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Performance indicators and the public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates


H Humphreys, R Cunney - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2008 - interscience.wiley.com
Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) makes evident the
importance of the quality of patient care, and the increasing demand for public
reporting of HCAI surveillance data and related quality indicators is thus ...
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Safety in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine: Should Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Be a …

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T Lisboa, DE Craven, J Rello - Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Abstract: Prevention of nosocomial infections constitutes a strategy to improve
patient safety and quality of care in intensive care unit (ICU). Infection
prevention measures, specifically targeting ventilator-associated pneumonia ...
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