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| NEWS & LATEST ARTICLES |
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Learned Helplessness, the Mirage of Safety, and Home Dialysis -
Posting from the KidneyViews blog. - June 5, 2019 |
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Columbia Nursing Study Finds Link Between Healthcare Associated Infections and Nurse Understaffing - Press release from Columbia University Irving Medical Center. - June 4, 2019 |
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Epidemiology of Falls and Fall Related Injuries among Middle-Aged Adults with Kidney Disease - First Online abstract from International Urology and Nephrology. - June 4, 2019 |
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Falls Are Increasingly Lethal for Older Americans -
Article from HealthDay. Press releases from JAMA and the University of British Columbia. - June 4, 2019 |
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Baxter Recalls Some Lots of Revaclear Dialyzers Due to Leaks -
Article from Healio. - June 3, 2019 |
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FDA Product Recall Notices: - May 31 - June 2, 2019 |
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Do Medical-Alert Bracelets Benefit Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? -
Press release and CJASN Published Ahead of Print abstract from the American Society of Nephrology. - May 31, 2019 |
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News Summaries from Kaiser Health News. - May 30, 2019 |
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Hospital Safety Events More Likely To Be Reported for White Patients: Study -
(Registration required, but free.) Article from Modern Healthcare. - May 24, 2019 |
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FDA Issues Warning About Unauthorized Diabetes Devices -
News brief from NEJM Journal Watch. FDA notice. - May 20, 2019 |
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Hospitals Cut Safety-Related Patient Deaths by 22% since 2016: Leapfrog -
Article from HFMA. - May 15, 2019 |
| WEB RESOURCES |
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Safe
Patient Handling from the American Nurses Association (ANA) |
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5-Diamond Patient Safety Program - 15 module program from the Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition (Network 5) and the 2014-2015 5-Diamond Data Book |
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AAMI Standards and Recommended Practices: Dialysis 2015 edition - The 2015 collection consists of 11 AAMI Hemodialysis standards, six of which were published in 2014 (Price Mbr/List $357/$541) |
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Dialysis Event Protocol (pdf) and Tables of Instructions (pdf). - updated June 2011 from the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) |
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Electrical Safety Manual - 2015 Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to Electrical Safety Standards for Healthcare Facilities - Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) web site. Cost is $117 forAAMI members / $195 nonmembers. |
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FDA Drug Safety Information for Patients and Health Care Professionals - from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
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Healthy People 2010 Final Review and chapter 4 on Chronic Kidney Disease (12-page pdf). - from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) |
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IAC Publications: Needle Tips - from the Immunization Action Coalition |
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Improving
Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities - Resources from the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality. |
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Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety web site |
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Keeping Kidney Patients Safe web site |
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National
Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Dialysis Event Protocol - 6-page
pdf from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web
site. NHSN Dialysis Event website.
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National
Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Report, data summary
from January 1992 through June 2004, issued October 2004 - (pdf)
from the National Center for Infectious Diseases |
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National Patient Safety Agency web site (UK organization) |
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Nephrology Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice © 2011 (7th Edition) - from the American Nephrology Nurses Association web site |
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One Needle, One Syringe, Only One Time - A new educational video for healthcare providers on safe injection practices from the One & Only Campaign |
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Patient safety Network (PSNet) web site |
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Preventing Bloodstream Infection During Hemodialysis - Video from the CDC Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and conducted in partnership with the Delmarva Foundation and others. |
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Preventing Falls Among Older Adults article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web site |
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Protecting the Rights, Safety, and Welfare of Study Subjects (pdf) from the FDA's Regulatory Information |
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Renal Patient Safety Resources - List from the Renal Physicians Association web site. |
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Risk Management - podcast from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) web site |
| ESSENTIALS AND CLASSICS |
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Dialysis Safety - from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web site |
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First in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System - on line book by Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson, Editors; Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine; Copyright © 2000. |
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Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS) - from the American Society of Nephrology web site |
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Safe Patient Handling and Movement - from the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs web site |
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Patient Safety: Safe Practices 2010 from the National Quality Forum (NQF) web site |
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Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. |
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Workbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program - from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web site |
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Internal Bleeding: the Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes by Robert M. Wachter, MD and Kaveh G. Shojania, MD (Rugged Land Books, 2004) |
| PUBMED SEARCHES |
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PubMed Search Tool of the National Library Of Medicine's MEDLINE Database. These links allows you to search through over 11 million indexed articles. Due to copyright laws, only the abstracts (summaries) of the articles are usually listed. Some articles appear in full text on the publishers' web sites that are linked to PubMed. This page provides an Overview of PubMed. All these search results links are continually updated by the Library of Congress. |
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biocompatibility and dialysis |
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pyrogen and dialysis |
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equipment malfunction and dialysis |
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hemolysis and hemodialysis |
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chloramines and hemodialysis |
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disequilibrium syndrome and dialysis |
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dialysis dementia or dialysis encephalopathy |
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air embolism and dialysis |
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medical error and dialysis |
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patient safety and dialysis |
| DISCUSSION FORUM |
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General Dialysis Nursing Issues and Questions (No dedicated RenalWEB forum) |
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Dialysis Technical Forum |
| RELATED TOPICS |
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AIDS (auto immune deficiency syndrome) and dialysis - PubMed search |
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VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci) and dialysis - PubMed search |
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MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and dialysis - PubMed search |
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Guidelines & Recommendations for Immunizations - infection control practices from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
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hepatitis AND dialysis - PubMed search - Continually Updated! |
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hepatitis B - PubMed search - Continually Updated! |
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hepatitis C - PubMed search - Continually Updated! |
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hepatitis AND vaccine - PubMed search - Continually Updated! |
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