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HHS May Change HCAHPS for Pain Care
HHS is proposing a change to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey to address complaints that healthcare providers were penalized if they appropriately limited pain medications.
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EHRs May Not Affect Patient Safety Negatively
Recent research suggests concerns over how electronic health records may affect patient safety may be overblown.
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Antibiotic Use Reductions May Decrease Clostridium difficile
Two recent developments limiting antibiotic use could have a secondary benefit of reducing Clostridium difficile infections, which have been the bane of infection preventionists since emerging in a highly virulent strain some 15 years ago.
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Strange Cases of Zika Transmission
Zika virus is proving nothing if not unpredictable as we now also have a strange case of apparent transmission to a caregiver from a dying patient as well as the first documented case of apparent female-to-male sexual transmission.
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One-third of Patients Injured in Rehab Hospitals
Almost a third of patients in rehab hospitals suffer a medication error or some other type of preventable harm during their stay, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Zika Mosquito Spread Begins In Miami
As this issue went to press, public health officials in Miami confirmed the first local cases of Zika transmission in the United States via mosquitoes.
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AHA Analysis Says Star Ratings Inaccurate
A new analysis from the American Hospital Association concludes that there are fundamental design flaws in the CMS star ratings.
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Drug Diversion: A New Sheriff in Town
After a series of highly publicized drug diversion incidents by healthcare workers and patient outbreaks in Colorado in recent years, the state has passed a law that requires surgical technologists to register and submit to background checks.
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Oregon Targets Data Overload, Develops Strategies
It’s one of the most common complaints among healthcare quality professionals: There are so many metrics and so much data to compile. How can we ever keep up?
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Addicted Patients Inject, Infect Their Own IV Lines
The national opioid epidemic is causing daily overdoses in the community, diversion drug thefts by healthcare workers, and now a dangerous new aspect at the bedside: Hospitalized patients are injecting illicit drugs and hoarded medications directly into their placed IV lines.