Empowering Nurses to Engage With Transplant Quality Data and Outcomes.

Background: Understanding patient outcome data and quality improvement metrics can help the health-care team target interventions to improve patient care and guide practice. Challenges to understanding and use of data include finding time during clinical work, determining meaning, and understanding a connection to practice.

Problem Statement: Acute care nurses who routinely care for organ transplant patients could not speak to transplant quality data or outcomes.

Identifying Patterns of Adverse Events of Solid Organ Transplantation Through Departmental Case Reviews.

Unlabelled: The best approach to adverse-event review in solid organ transplantation is unknown. We initiated a departmental case review (DCR) method based on root-cause analysis methods in a high-volume multiorgan transplant center. We aimed to describe this process and its contributions to process improvement.

St. Louis encephalitis virus possibly transmitted through blood transfusion-Arizona, 2015.

Background: St. Louis encephalitis virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that infrequently causes epidemic central nervous system infections. In the United States, blood donors are not screened for St.