OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of tolerability, safety and immunogenicity of a two-dose series of a quadrivalent meningococcal polysaccharide diptheria toxoid conjugate (ACYW-D) vaccine in Indian and Russian infants/toddlers.
American journal of clinical pathology
Oct 24, 2018
OBJECTIVES: An unfortunate reality of laboratory medicine is that blood specimens collected from one patient occasionally get mislabeled with identifiers from a different patient, resulting in so-called "wrong blood in tube" (WBIT) errors and potenti...
Same-day endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and cholecystectomy (LC) could potentially reduce hospital length of stay (HLOS). Patients undergoing same-day procedures (N = 164) between 2012 and 2014 were compared with different-day ...
A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is a thin catheter that is inserted via arm veins and threaded near the heart, providing intravenous access. The final catheter tip position is always confirmed on a chest radiograph (CXR) immediately a...
INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to develop a semiautomated approach to screening cases that describe hazards associated with the electronic health record (EHR) from a mandatory, population-based patient safety reporting system.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
In times of steadily increasing numbers of administered drugs, the detection of adverse drug events (ADEs) is an important aspect of improving patient safety. At present only about 1-13% of detected ADEs are reported. Raising the number of reported A...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Over the past two decades, there have seen an ever-increasing amount of patient safety reports yet the capacity of extracting useful information from the reports remains limited. Classification of patient safety reports is the first step of performin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Automated identification provides an efficient way to categorize patient safety incidents. Previous studies have focused on identifying single incident types relating to a specific patient safety problem, e.g., clinical handover. In reality, there ar...
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