In the News
- Stopping Sepsis from the October 2011 issue of Today's Hospitalist discusses the significant improvement in mortality rates for hospitals who have implemented a program targeted at quickly identifying and treating patients who are risk for developing sepsis.
- Read The Altos Group's Fall, 2010 Newsletter here (October 2010)
- Kliger, INLP featured on UCSF web pageUCSF Intervention Leads to Big Drop in Medication Errors (July 2010)
- Kliger cited in LA Times piece Nurses administering medications can't pardon the interruption (April 2010)
- Kliger interview and Archives editorial is featured in AOL NewsStudy: Distracted nurses make more errors (April 2010)
- Kliger cited in LA Times piece Nurses administering medications can't pardon the interruption (April 2010)
- JAMA: Interruptions associated with errors by nurses (April, 2010)
- Julie Kliger Guest Author on Joint Commission Journal Blog: Building in Strategic Communication as Key to Leadership in Improvement (March 2010)
- Kliger article selected as Paper of the Month by the Swiss Patient Safety Foundation (March 4, 2010)
Julie Kliger and colleagues’ article “Empowering Frontline Nurses: A Structured Intervention Enables Nurses to Improve Medication Administration Accuracy”, published recently in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, was awarded the distinction of Paper of the Month by the Swiss Patient Safety Foundation. David Schwappach, MPH, Scientific Head of the Swiss Patient Safety Foundation, congratulated Kliger and her colleagues for their work which “explores a very important issues and is of high relevance to both healthcare staff and academia.“ Find a link to the article on the Articles page of our website. - AACN Bold Voices: Best Practices Make Near-Perfect Medication Administration (February 2010)
- Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement: Nurses improve medication administration accuracy (February 2010)
- Reuters: UCSF program achieves 88% reduction in medication administration error (October 2009)