There is a good chance that you have Staph - Staphylococcus aureus - on your body right now. In fact, it is estimated that 25-30% of us carry Staph...
Posts about Patient Advocacy (2):
Health literacy is the ability to obtain, read, understand, and use healthcare information to make appropriate health decisions and follow...
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...
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...
The weeks between mid-September and mid-October has been National Hispanic Heritage Month since the late 1980s. During this month, the nation takes...
To recognize MRSA Awareness Month through October, here are 5 critical facts about MRSA that everyone needs to know.
Those of us who work in the field of infection control have a lot on our minds: Surveillance, efficacy, new studies, data, policy, finances... the...
How can a simple infection lead to organ failure and death in the span of a few days? The answer lies not in the pathogen causing the infection...
In today's healthcare marketplace, it is growing commonplace to consider patients as customers - and the shoe fits, so to speak. Patients do have...