Patient Care

Influence of a performance-improvement initiative on quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the organized program to initiate lifesaving treatment in hospitalized patients with heart failure (OPTIMIZE-HF)
GC Fonarow, WT Abraham, NM Albert, W Gattis Stough, M Gheorghiade, BH Greenberg, CM O’Connor, K Pieper, J Lena Sun, CW Yancy, JB Young
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007, 167, pp1493-1502

“Mistake-proofing health care delivery”
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality describes 150 practical examples that can help make health care processes “mistake-proof.”
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The impact of clinical physician order entry systems on improving patient safety
This is the next in the series of Faculty management briefings, and was overseen with the help of the Faculty of Health Informatics Board. Click here to read more.

Improving detection of adverse effects of marketed drugs
DF Klein
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, 298(3), pp333-334

Effect of educational intervention on medication timing in Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled trial
KA Grosset, DG Grosset
BMC Neurology, 2007, 7:20
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Patient adherence to tuberculosis treatment: a systematic review of qualitative research
SA Munro, SA Lewin, HJ Smith, ME Engel, A Fretheim, J Volmink
PLoS Medicine, 2007, 4:726 July 2007
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