Veterans Affairs Hospital

Chief of Neurology Service, Edward Hines Jr. Veteran Affairs Hospital Professor of Neurology and of Cell Biology,Neurobiology Anatomy, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Maywood, Illinois... 

Chief, Neurology Service, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital... 

Mahoney JE, Webb Ml, Gray SL. Zolpidem prescribing and adverse drug reactions in hospitalized general medicine patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother 2004,2(1 ) 66-74. 

Includes the full range of acute convalescent, restorative, and rehabilitative care. Highest level treatment capability permanent military or Veterans Affairs hospitals, or civilian hospitals that have committed beds for the National Defense Medical System. 

Veterans Affairs Hospital of Palo Alto Palo Alto, California... 

Department of Neurological Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Center, Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI., William S. Middleton Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, WI53792, USA... 

SHAKAIB U. REHMAN Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Hospital and Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29401, USA... 

While it seems relatively straight forward, and pretty much common sense, to include information about safety risks and hazards in a job description, it is unclear whether this really is common practice. A study by Ramsay et al. (2006) examined the job descriptions of nurses from 29 Veterans Affairs hospitals from across the USA. The job descriptions were examined by an expert panel of occupational nurses for the degree to which they incorporated the 12 primary occupational safety and health risk factors which emergency department nurses face, as defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Surprisingly, virtually, none of the position descriptions included the key safety information. This seems like a missed opportunity, particularly given the importance of taking all possible steps to alert new employees to safety risks and hazards. 

Watts et al. (2010) administered the SAQ before and after implementation of MTT in Veterans Affairs hospitals. They found that 26 of the 63 hospitals showed improvement in some aspect of the SAQ, with most improving in the perceptions of management dimension of the SAQ. Carney et al. (2011) also studied the... 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

American Association of Retired Persons American Health Care Association American Hospital Association American Medical Association American Nurses Association American Pharmaceutical Association American Society of Health-System Pharmaeists American Society for Healthcare Risk Management Department of Veterans Affairs Food and Drug Administration Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association Institute for Safe Medication Practices... 

Rosenheck, R, Cramer, J., Xu, W., et al.. A comparison of clozapine and haloperidol in hospitalized patients with refractory schizophrenia Department of Veterans Affairs Co-operative Study Group on clozapine in refractory schizophrenia. N. Engl. J. Med. 337, 809-815. 1997. 

It s a promising way to automate aspects of medication administration, says Robert Krawisz, former executive director of the National Patient Safety Foundation. The technology s impact at VA hospitals so far has been amazing. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) already uses bar codes nationwide in its hospitals, and the result has been a drastic reduction in medication errors. For example, the VA medical center in Topeka, Kan., has reported that bar coding reduced its medication error rate by 86 percent over a nine-year period. 

Dr. Schondelmeyers report to OTA is based on data from the IMS America, Inc. MIDAS system using the United States Drugstore and United States Hospital database. That database does not include sales made directly to mail-order distributors, health maintenance organizations, or Federal Government health purchasers (such as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the military.) In 1986, IMS America claimed the database reflected 98 percent of ethical pharmaceutical sales in the United States (368), but this share may be declining as mail-order pharmacies become more important. 

An exemplar of accountability is the Veterans Affairs system that, under the leadership of Dr. Ken Kizer, established the Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety. Kizer chose physician and former space shuttle astronaut James Bagian to lead both the center and a relentless, evidence-based campaign to eliminate harm across the 170-hospital VA system and to test new technologies and interventions to make health care safer. While at the VA, Dr. Nancy Wilson developed a culture survey. This leadership tool evaluates whether specific tactics are in place to advance the culture of safety. The survey measures leadership and strategy, and it includes the following dimensions (Wilson, 2000) ... 

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