March 2023-Printed Issue
The spring 2023 issue of *Patient Safety* is available to read and download at no charge. This issue features four articles that came out of the Patient Safety Authority’s first master class in writing quality improvement studies. Workshop facilitator Olivia Lounsbury, Quality and Safety Program co...
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Patient Safety Authority
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Patient Safety |
| Online Access: | https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74302-march-2023-printed-issue |
| Summary: | The spring 2023 issue of *Patient Safety* is available to read and download at no charge.
This issue features four articles that came out of the Patient Safety Authority’s first master class in writing quality improvement studies. Workshop facilitator Olivia Lounsbury, Quality and Safety Program coordinator at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, guided participants in writing about recent studies that had an impact on patient care so others could learn from and replicate their work.
* A community hospital took broad, innovative steps to [increase compliance with sepsis treatment best practices](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74015-improving-sepsis-compliance-with-human-factors-interventions-in-a-community-hospital-emergency-room) to meet state and national benchmarks.
* A team introduced [a process to properly identify, document, and evaluate patients’ risk of adverse drug reactions](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74022-adverse-drug-reactions-in-moderate-sedation-process-improvement-during-a-pandemic) during moderate sedation.
* Researchers [studied methods of collecting urine for lab analysis](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74060-reduction-of-patient-harm-through-decreasing-urine-culture-contamination-in-an-emergency-department-using-multiple-process-improvement-interventions) to prevent contaminated samples from resulting in incorrect diagnoses or delayed care.
* A team introduced [a first-of-its-kind virtual consultation hotline for staff with central line concerns](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74075-preventing-central-line-bloodstream-infections-an-interdisciplinary-virtual-model-for-central-line-rounding-and-consultation) to help identify bloodstream infections rapidly and reduce patient harm.
This issue also includes new research articles looking at how healthcare can [learn from alarm and alert designs from other industries](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/73905-informing-healthcare-alarm-design-and-use-a-human-factors-cross-industry-perspective), and [how to assess equipment, supplies, and devices for patient safety issues](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/73988-assessing-equipment-supplies-and-devices-for-patient-safety-issues); a discussion with Dr. Nirmal Joshi, chair of the Patient Safety Authority, about [the past, present, and future of healthcare](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74081-view-from-the-top-an-interview-with-patient-safety-authority-chair-dr-nirmal-joshi); and stories about [the powerful impact event reporting has made on patient care](https://patientsafetyj.com/article/74079-events-that-inspired-change-the-importance-of-sharing-what-happened-to-stop-it-from-happening-again).
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| ISSN: | 2689-0143 2641-4716 |