With declining rates of COVID-19 globally, some areas of the world are entering what is called the "endemic phase" of the pandemic. While the virus...
Posts by Erica Mitchell:
The word “reputation” comes from words meaning “to judge repeatedly.” This idea of forming an opinion, and reforming it over and over again as time...
After more than a year of a global pandemic, we can all justify a bit of flu fatigue. We've been so busy dealing with COVID-19, that we may have few...
To provide better transparency, hospitals across the nation have publicly posted their prices. The idea was to help consumers make better financial...
Measuring the cost-effectiveness of an infection prevention intervention requires careful translation of complex issues into dollar values: The...
When considering an infection prevention intervention, how should the costs be calculated? The first question should be what costs should be...
While the majority of Americans, and the vast majority of healthcare workers, support vaccine mandates, there are opponents who believe individuals...
Any time a healthcare facility considers investing in a new intervention - a medicine, a device, a piece of equipment, and even a training program -...
In a time of crisis, be it a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, or a global pandemic, there must be plans in place to help responders make...
Our previous post presented some of the problems with the current fee-for-service payment model used in healthcare. In response to these costly...
In a previous post, we explored the preliminary data describing the status of Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) during the pandemic. These first...
As hard as it is to believe, most hospitals do not know how much their services cost. They know what they charge, but that number has almost nothing...