Today wraps up our series on becoming an empowered patient or patient advocate. We hope 2020 brings you all nothing but health and happiness, but...
Posts by Erica Mitchell:
Spring and summer mean conference season for Infection Preventionists and other medical practitioners! Academic and exposition/trade conferences are...
This week's topic has suggestions for how to keep track of all the information you are collecting. Whether you like paper-based or digital...
Our series continues with a step that helps you take action as you become a more empowered patient. While health insurance and other factors set...
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Patients, Staff, Administrators: What Each of Us Can Do to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs)
We hear so often how "we all have a role to play in reducing healthcare associated infections." From washing our hands to advocating for policy...
This week we continue our series on our New Year's resolution: Becoming a more empowered patient! This step provides some guidelines to help make...
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Risk Mitigation and Infection Control: Key Terms
In the world of risk mitigation, there are a number of established concepts that encompass the many ways to avoid harm. These concepts also apply to...
At no other time in history has the patient had access to the amount of information about illness, had the legal and societal (and financial) rights...
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How are Graph Neural Networks Being Used in the Fight Against Healthcare Acquired Infections?
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are computer algorithms that take data from graphs and uses relationships between the data points to make predictions or...
The concept of safety is nothing new: Anything that protects us from injury or death has surely been on the mind of humankind since we were...
To address the persistent issue of healthcare associated infections, hospital professionals deploy two primary approaches: reactive and proactive...
There are so many psychological, sociological, and intellectual barriers to change - anyone who has tried to break a bad habit or motivate a group...