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Improvement Report: Spread of Unit Briefings to Enhance A Culture of Safety
Iowa Health System (Des Moines, Iowa, USA) tested the use of Unit Briefings in one hospital to reduce the risk of medication errors and spread the change to 40 units, then to nine system hospitals within one year. The result: Adverse drug events were decreased by 75 percent in eleven months across all system hospitals.
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Improvement Report: Advanced Clinic Access Initiative
The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, a national public sector health care system in the US consisting of 162 hospitals and more than 850 community and facility-based clinics, improved access resulting in significant decreases in waiting times despite a 23 percent increase in demand for health care services and an increase in supply of only 2.3 percent.
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