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Health
Systems
Patient Safety at Kaiser
Permanente.
By Leslie
Francis, MBA, MHA; Jed
Weissberg, MD; Patricia
B Siegel, MS
If you
have heard about the national concern over patient safety and medical
errors but have not had the time to really understand the complexities
of the issue, then this article on Kaiser Permanente's response is a
"must" read.
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Addressing Patient Safety
in an Ambulatory Care Setting: The KP Georgia Region's Experience.
By Yancy
Y Phillips, MD; Thomas
M Judd, MS, PE, CCE, CPHQ
In response
to the national debate on patient safety, the KP Georgia Region restructured
their approach to quality improvement, peer review and risk management.
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A Collaborative Program
for Assessing Outpatient Medication Safety: The KP Mid-Atlantic Region's
Experience.
By Ray
Palasik, RPh, MBA; Katherine
A Dunn, RN, MSM; Lizabeth
Taghavi, BS; Susan
Tischler, RN, MSN; Catherine
Dischner, RN, MSN, CEN, CAN; and Curtis
LaFisca, BS
This paper
describes an innovative outpatient medication safety program developed
and piloted by the KP Mid-Atlantic States Region.
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Culture, Systems, and Human
Factors -- Two Tales of Patient Safety: The KP Colorado Region's Experience.
By Michael
Leonard, MD; Carol
Anne Tarrant, RN, MS, JD
This article
highlights both system and cultural issues in two patient safety projectsa
cardiac treadmill project and a perioperative beta blockade project.
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CPC Corner:
Do Practitioners in The Southeast Permanente Medical Group Value Participation
in Clinician-Patient Communication Programs?
By Sandra
Gauthier, PHR
This paper
highlights the Clinician-Patient Communication programs of The Southeast
Permanente Medical Group and underscores the participants' expressed
value of their experience.
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Peer Discussion in a Family
Practice.
By Roger
A Forsyth, MD; Sudarmo
Winarko, MD
This paper
presents a study on the impact of feedback to family physicians through
peer discussionsa hallmark of the Permanente cultureinstead of by traditional
lectures or simple data feedback.
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