Articles Tagged With: safety
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Specialty Pharmacists Play Important Role in Patient Safety
Specialty pharmacists can be influential with encouraging other pharmacists to improve patient safety. Those at a health system level work with many pharmacy departments. -
How to Safely Open Schools in the Time of COVID-19
Multiple COVID-19 transmission clusters were identified in a Georgia school district, with educators often the index cases. The CDC has provided recommendations for safely opening schools.
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Despite High-Risk Residents, Only 37% of Long-Term Care Staff Vaccinated
In what would appear to go beyond vaccine hesitancy to outright refusal, 62.5% of staff at thousands of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have turned down COVID-19 vaccine.
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OR Teams Often Exposed to Toxic Chemicals in Surgical Smoke
Executive nurse leaders can collaborate with states and professional organizations to advocate for smoke evacuation legislation, and they can create policies at their facilities to mitigate surgical smoke.
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Ethical Concerns if Clinical Trial Results Go Unreported
Study participants believe investigators are conducting their research to promote the public good and scientific advancement. But leaving trial data unpublished creates its own kind of bias, possibly harming the public.
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Paclitaxel-Eluting Devices: Is It Time to Stop Worrying?
Paclitaxel-eluting devices vs. bare metal stents in peripheral arterial disease showed no significant difference in all-cause mortality, contradicting the results of a controversial meta-analysis.
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As COVID-19 Vaccine Rolls Out, Leaders Need to Roll Up Sleeves
The new COVID-19 vaccine provide good news for a pandemic-weary healthcare world, offering case managers and other hospital professionals an opportunity to become vaccinated against COVID-19. Case managers should expect uncertainty about how the first vaccines are distributed.
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DSMBs Have Helped Advance Safe, Effective HIV/AIDS Research
Data safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) have played a big role in helping the most effective and safe HIV therapies advance.
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Data Safety Monitoring Boards Were Quietly Behind the Scenes, but No More
DSMBs have been an essential fabric of clinical trials in recent decades, but until 2020, their work largely was under the public radar.
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COVID-19 Trial Protocol/Consent Issues Discussed on National Stage
Placebo vs. access to the available vaccine