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• https://health.gov/news/announcements/2017/01/new-report-shows-continued-reduction-in-hospital-acquired-conditions/

  Steve Johnson

  Jan 24, 2017
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  Why Violence Against Nurses Has Spiked in the Last Decade

  The Atlantic - Alexia Fernández Campbell

  Here’s an alarming statistic: In the past decade or so, there has been a 110 percent spike in the rate of violent incidents reported against health-care workers. In one informal survey, as many as one-in-four nurses suggested that they had been attacked at work between 2013 and 2014 alone.* …

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  Thwarting ‘Alert Fatigue’ in Healthcare—and Elsewhere

  brinknews.com - Eric Shelov

  Piyushgiri Revagar/Flickr As our human environment—our cars, planes and various facilities—becomes increasingly automated, machines are tasked with …

• Steve Johnson

  By The Numbers: Our Progress In Digitizing Health Care | Health Affairs Forefront

  healthaffairs.org

  Over the past seven years, the United States has seen a historic health IT transformation, moving from a primarily paper-based health system to one …

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  Johns Hopkins study suggests medical errors are third-leading cause of death in U.S.

  jhu.edu - By Vanessa McMains

  Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per …

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  How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?

  propublica.org

  An updated estimate says it could be at least 210,000 patients a year – more than twice the number in the Institute of Medicine’s frequently quoted …