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August 2003 • Issue 1

QUmasthead
A Newsletter from The Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care

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Conversation with Laura Winner
The Six Sigma expert discusses attacking surgical site infections in CABG surgery.

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The Director's Chair: Invitation to Exciting Ideas
By Richard O. Davis, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care.

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On the Trail of Medication Errors
How pharmacist Faramarz Zarfeshanfard and the Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit staff ferreted out medication errors.

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Points from Pronovost: Communication, A Daily Goal
Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Director of the Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care and Hopkins' safety expert, on how communication breakdowns can put patients at risk. 

DEPARTMENTS
> FEATURED STORIES
• Walking the Talk of Patient Safety
• Excellence Without Borders
> SHORT CUTS
• Toolbox Fellowships; Se habla español en Baltimore
> TOOLS
• Building Success: Six Sigma Proves its Mettle
> DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONTLINES
> WHAT AN IDEA!



 



 

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