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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...
To address the persistent issue of healthcare associated infections, hospital professionals deploy two primary approaches: reactive and proactive...
Achieving and maintaining sanitized surfaces in hospitals requires an arsenal cleaning and disinfecting products, with quaternary ammonium compounds...
Hospital finances are a complex process, involving all the parts of a service provider, a retail business, an investment venture, and a non-profit...
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...
How do you put an economic value on a human life? Why would you ever want to? As difficult as this quantification may be, it is a necessary practice...
One of the most tracked and reported metrics in today's healthcare facilities is infection rates. Anyone working in a hospital is aware of the...
In our last post, we explored how adopting a new product can result in some heavy lifting. Not only does product adoption require financial...
Many healthcare concerns will follow us into the new year, some we have carried for decades and some that have become more threatening thanks to the...
Among all tracked hospital-associated infections, the one that seems to have the lowest rates are surgical site infections. While this relative...