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Fostering Collaboration: An Interprofessional Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Workshop for Medical, Physician Assistant, Nursing, and Pharmacy Students

Objectives: Quality improvement and patient safety (QI/PS) education is required for students in undergraduate healthcare training. Interprofessional education provides an excellent collaborative opportunity to teach the core concepts of this topic; however, implementing a successful interprofessional activity often is challenging due to complex curricular and scheduling differences. To meet this...

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Improving Critical Value Read-Back Failure Rate by Modifying the Notification Procedure

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine whether a system process change improved successful read-back of critical values by the appropriate provider.Methods: The study implemented a system process change of switching the “first call” physician from the admitting physician to the most recent document writer. Data were compared...

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