Over the past few posts, we have been looking at how ideas make their way to hospital decision-makers. Nurses play a crucial role in patient care,...
Posts about Hospitals (2):
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Who Makes Decisions about Infection Prevention in a Private (Non-Government Owned) Hospital?
Hospitals are the setting for countless decisions each day, decisions that impact patient outcomes, financial investments, community health and so...
Probably no other organizational entity has the human resources complexity of a hospital. Healthcare facilities bring together not just medical...
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Hospital Acquired Infections and Hospitals Acquired by Private Equity: The Dangerous Correlation
About a quarter of American hospitals are for-profit, that is, they are operated to generate profit for owners and stakeholders. A subsection of...
C. diff, or Clostridioides difficile, is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, endosporic, toxigenic, opportunistic, bacillus. Its scientific...
Every successful organization, from a small grassroots group to a global corporation, has a way for ideas to percolate through the system and find...
Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...
To recognize MRSA Awareness Month through October, here are 5 critical facts about MRSA that everyone needs to know.
Every year a new class of students start their medical training with a white coat ceremony. The white coat is so synonymous with "Doctor," it seems...
Germ theory, the idea that infection is caused by microscopic organisms unseen to the naked eye, is only a few hundred years old. This theory focuses...
Eradicating pathogens from environmental surfaces in hospitals is a daily fight. Keeping bacteria from reproducing on surfaces, finding reservoirs in...
In our previous posts about DALYs and QALYs, we have defined the terms and presented how the healthcare field calculates these two measures of...