Advances in health information technology provide significant opportunities for improvements in surgical patient safety. The adoption and use of electronic health records can enhance communication along the surgical spectrum of care. Bar coding and radiofrequency identification technology are strategies to prevent retained surgical sponges and for tracking the operating room supply chain. Compu...

S1 Fig-S4 Fig show the 5’, 3’, and full escape graphs for CH40, CH58, CH77 and CH256. Vertices are colored yellow and red to represent initial and expansion vertices. Uncolored vertices represent vertices we ignored in forming an escape tree as described in the Methods. The 5’ epitopes are underlined in the full escape graph. Above each vertex is the associated variant frequency at the first an...

BACKGROUND Research on patient care has identified substantial variations in the quality and safety of healthcare and the considerable risks of iatrogenic harm as significant issues. These failings contribute to the high rates of potentially avoidable morbidity and mortality and to the rising levels of healthcare expenditure seen in many health systems. There have been substantial developments ...

The eye is build like a small camera that projects the image of the environment on its inner wall. Instead of an electronic chip that captures the image, a light sensitive tissue layer covers the eye inside like a wall paper. It contains a dense array of photoreceptor cells which respond to light with an electrical signal. To see sharply, the projected image must be in good focus. This conditio...

Objectives: The transfer of medication information across patient care settings is an important care process handoff with major potential for adverse medical events. This paper reports the results of a recently completed AHRQ project, IDS Solutions for Medication Information Transfer Across Patient Care Settings. A primary objective of this research was to enhance understanding of how patient h...