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Learning from Every Patient A Newsletter for Frontline Healthcare Team Members and Quality Improvement Professionals Real cases. Practical improvements. Stronger voices at the bedside. From HB Healthcare Safety® and Influence Ignited! Edited by Jeanne M. Huddleston, MD, MS 2 ÷ 20,000. BLUF: A small numerator divided by a very large denominator is a very small proportion. Two patients. Lost to a rare event last year. Two of twenty thousand admissions. Every hospital has a version of this...