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Hospitals take cultural sensitivity seriously

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitivities and religions that can confound doctors, nurses and caregivers and hinder patients' best pos
Case Studies
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Welcome to Multicultural Health Care: A Quality Improvement Guide

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiatives to improve culturally and linguistically appropriate services and to reduce disparities in health
Magazine/Newspaper
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NAPH Members Focus on Reducing Readmissions

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented
Magazine/Newspaper
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2011 Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections

2011 Guidelines
Magazine & Journal Articles
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Factors Contributing to an Increase in Duplicate Medication Order Errors After CPOE Implementation

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system factors, including the CPOE, CDS and medication database design, contributed to their occurrence.
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Innovating for More Affordable Health Care

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services and technologies in health care.
Websites
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Think Cultural Health

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural and linguistic competency in health care.
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ED Throughput

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and extensive wait times. And rightly so.
Case Studies
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Healthy Hospital Practice to Practice Series

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support the health of their employees and embody the mission of their organization.
Standards/Guidelines
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Ensuring Equity: A Post-Reform Framework to Achieve High Performance Health Care for Vulnerable Populations

In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations defined in this report as people without health insurance, low-income families, and racial and ethni