Briefings on Patient Safety May 2009
Patient Safety Monitor, May 1, 2009
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This issue covers how HCAHPS has changed for 2009 and how facilities can boost their HCAHPS scores, how some facilities are using storytelling to create a more inviting patient environment, hospitalists’ role in patient safety, how one ICU is utilizing telemedicine to help prevent its patients from contracting ventilator-associated pneumonia, and a preview of the Briefings on Patient Safety 2009 Culture of Safety Survey.
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