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June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A patient care plan, including current fall risk status and appropriate interventions, should be made available to the patient, the patient's health care team and family to reduce falls.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Adding home health visits by community health workers for families already receiving in-clinic support from asthma nurses, gives their asthmatic children 24 more symptom-free days per year on average and also modestly improves quality of life for caregivers.
December 1, 2008 | Journal Article
A program such as WalkRounds can help hospitals diagnose areas of weakness in patient safety, by encouraging interaction between leadership and front-line caregivers. However, hospitals need the commitment, leadership, and resources to implement them properly.
October 1, 2008 | Journal Article
A nurse-led interdisciplinary team considers how to ensure a patient's current medications are taken into account when hospital physicians or clinicians prescribe in-hospital treatment and drugs.
October 20, 2009 | Program Result
The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD designed, printed and distributed the second edition of the Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide.
November 30, 2005 | Journal Article
Minority-serving hospitals may provide lower quality of care to VLBW infants compared with other hospitals. Because VLBW black infants are disproportionately treated by minority-serving hospitals.
September 30, 2009 | Program Result
From November 2006 to May 2009, investigators at the Medical College of Wisconsin helped six medical schools develop educational programs for palliative care and trained faculty at those schools to teach in the field.
August 11, 2009 | Story
Seattle Children's Hospital created quick, hassle-free way for patients, their families and health care providers to access interpreters.
June 1, 2009 | Program Result
Allies Against Asthma supported the efforts of seven community-based coalitions to improve the management of pediatric asthma in their areas.
January 1, 2009 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Alexis Levy, a communications associate at the Foundation, reports on the development and execution of the Foundation's efforts to reduce childhood asthma.