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PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, July 3, 2020
During the pandemic, patients are also likely to rate their ambulatory service experience based on how carefully you protect them from exposure to COVID-19, and how well you prepare them for the changes those protections create during their visits.
PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, June 24, 2020
A collaborative relationship is intended to help patients manage their conditions and stay healthy; make better health-related decisions; and become more interested in their ongoing care.
PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, June 24, 2020
Patient safety culture is a cornerstone of healthcare quality. Fostering patient safety culture requires an understanding of an organization's values, beliefs, and norms.
PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, June 19, 2020
Once upon a time, workers were told to use their surgical masks only once. Today, those masks get put into a bag at the end of a shift and used the next day—and maybe the day after that.
PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, June 19, 2020
It may be a long time coming, but what's very much needed is a mechanism for identifying, by individual facility, specific systemic sources of patient stress.
PSQH: Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, June 18, 2020
Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in December 2019, public health authorities and professional societies have been scrambling to develop management guidelines for clinicians to utilize.