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The Public Health System and Infection Control
In Washington, a panel is meeting to discuss the future of the US Public Health System. Public health systems came under increased scrutiny during...
Our efforts to reduce hospital acquired infections (HAIs) may have hit a challenging conundrum. On the one hand, we know that handwashing is...
Read any hospital design article or walk the floors of any healthcare trade show and you will see these three words: "Easy to Clean." With the...
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Anatomy of a Truly Safe Hospital Bed
Today's hospital beds are a product of 1800s innovation, steadily improving with each decade's advancements in health care, engineering, and...
Physicians and other healthcare workers take an oath - whether literally or simply by taking up a profession in medicine - to "first, do no harm" to...
Evidence-based design became a focus of study in the 1980s. This movement paired design choices with structured, formal scientific research. Rather...