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Examples of Quality

What We're Doing to Make Patients Safer

Scripps staff and physicians at all levels are working each day to make patients safer. From little things, like double- and triple-checking i.d. bracelets, to big things like standardizing cancer pathology reports, a lot goes on behind the scenes that significantly improves care quality.

The following story details one example where a sterilization team at Scripps La Jolla improved instrument sterilization so much that other hospitals wanted to know how they did it: