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Don’t Make Patients Come to You: Find Them
Some patient access departments are tracking patients’ locations in registration areas to provide better service, with plastic tracking badges, wristbands, or the patient’s own smart phone.
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Prior Authorizations: ‘Top Issue Within the Revenue Cycle’
A growing number of states have passed prior authorization legislation to combat payer requirements resulting in delayed care, lost revenue, and dissatisfied patients.
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Virulent, Drug-resistant Pneumonia Bug Emerges in China ICU
In particularly unwelcome news from China, researchers report they have isolated a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae that is both hypervirulent and highly drug-resistant. A worse combination is difficult to imagine. Usually, hypervirulent K. pneumoniae remains susceptible to drugs, but acquiring resistance apparently through genetic transfer in nature means this is a bug that could possibly infect heathy people in the community, let alone frail hospital patients.
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Poor Oral Care During Hospitalization May Lead to Pneumonia
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a commonly tracked healthcare-associated infection, and frequently the target of interventions to protect patients. On the other hand, non-ventilator healthcare-associated pneumonia falls into a gray area, where it often remains unreported in surveillance systems.
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CMS, Joint Commission Are Citing for ‘Flash’ Sterilization
The abiding principle is that if you must rapidly sterilize an instrument — usually in an effort to return it to the sterile field — you must immediately use it.
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SSIs: A Common and Costly Infection
The CDC has issued new guidelines for the prevention of the most common and costly healthcare-associated infection: surgical site infections.
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Highly Drug-resistant C. auris Continues to Emerge in U.S.
The CDC is urging infection preventionists and their clinical colleagues to have a high index of suspicion for emerging Candida auris, a fungus that spreads more like bacteria, can be highly drug-resistant, and survives on skin and environmental surfaces for prolonged periods.
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Subclinical Hypothyroidism: What Is It and When Should We Treat It?
The current diagnosis and treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism in women of reproductive age is controversial and may well change as new studies become available.
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Antenatal Steroids for Very Early PTB
A large European multicenter study has shown that antenatal corticosteroid administration in patients at risk for imminent very early preterm birth (24 to 31 weeks) will decrease perinatal mortality and morbidity substantially, even after only three hours of exposure.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Constipation, and Quality of Life in Women
Irritable bowel syndrome has a negative effect on women’s quality of life and affects one-third of women who present for care with fecal incontinence.