This series on outpatient services and infection control can seem rather dismal. Thankfully, most outpatient facilities are safe and only a small...
Posts about Patient Safety (3):
So far in our series on infection control in ambulatory care settings, we covered the types of facilities and how they are regulated. One huge topic...
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...
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
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)....