No one wants to stay in a hospital any longer than they have to. We all have an innate desire to get back to the comfort of our homes and begin the...
Posts about Patient Safety (3):
We don’t know enough about infection in ambulatory care centers.
Any kind of medical treatment received outside of a hospital admission is considered ambulatory care, or outpatient care. This category of healthcare...
In late January of 2016, the CDC issued a health advisory “urging dialysis providers and facilities toassess and improve infection control practices
Think back to the last time you or a loved one was a patient in a hospital or healthcare facility. What things do you remember most? Is it the stress...
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...
In an effort to reduce patient harm, Medicare continues to penalize hospitals with the highest patient safety incidents. In today's post we explore...
Two interesting studies examine the patient's perspective in hospital acquired infections. The patient experience happens to be an overlooked area in...
In the world of healthcare, there are so many acronyms (and some might say, euphemisms) for the deadly toll of medical errors and infections. Two...
Medical students have made the same promise since the dawn of health care: First, do no harm. Despite living by this maxim, medical staff are human....
The idea of going to the hospital can be scary enough without even thinking of the possibility of getting a hospital-acquired infection (HAI)....
We live in an environment teeming with microscopic organisms. They cover not only the surfaces we touch, but also our skin and even our insides. We...