With World Cancer Day this Saturday, we dedicate this post to those patients facing a cancer diagnosis. As with any serious disease, the many types...
Posts about Patient Safety (3):
Medical researchers have recently placed more emphasis on the non-medical conditions that impact patient health and outcomes. Collectively known as...
This series on outpatient services and infection control can seem rather dismal. Thankfully, most outpatient facilities are safe and only a small...
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...