Hospital recognized for safety.UMass Memorial Medical Center has been recognized by a state organization for increasing patient safety in its adult intensive care units. The hospital received an honorable mention from the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction, a group formed in 2002 to coordinate public and private initiatives to promote patient safety. The center is named for Betsy Lehman, a Boston Globe reporter who died in 1994 after a chemotherapy overdose. In 2005 UMass Memorial was honored for reducing medication errors medication error Malpractice An error in the type of medication administered or dosage. See Adverse effect, Error. . This year's award highlighted the implementation of clinical practice guidelines clinical practice guidelines Clinical policies, practice guidelines, practice parameters, practice policies Medtalk Systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and Pt decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. See Psychology. to cut down on ventilator ventilator /ven·ti·la·tor/ (ven´ti-la-tor) 1. an apparatus for qualifying the air breathed through it. 2. a device for giving artificial respiration or aiding in pulmonary ventilation. associated pneumonia and central venous catheter central venous catheter n. A catheter passed through a peripheral vein and ending in the thoracic vena cava; it is used to measure venous pressure or to infuse concentrated solutions. blood stream infections, the hospital said. Ventilator associated pneumonia case incidence is 86 percent below the national average, the hospital said, and the rate of blood stream infections has improved by 53 percent. |
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