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For years scarce data on health care associated infections in long term care has been extrapolated from small studies and published reports, but a new era of infection prevention is opening that may eventually produce the kind of benchmarking and national comparative HAI rates used in hospitals.
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Pick your poison: Hypervirulent KPC, untreatable E. coli in the community
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Feedback on clinical ethics consultations from patients, family, colleagues, and the ethics committee can improve the clinical ethics service and identify systemic problems.
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Only 26% of 7946 adults surveyed had an advance directive, according to a recent study. Lack of awareness was the most frequently reported reason for not having an advance directive. Most participants reported concerns about end-of-life care.
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The GUIDE (Genomic Uses in Infectious Disease & Epidemics) project is examining ethical, legal, social, and policy issues involving the application of genomics to prevention and treatment of infectious disease.
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Moving donors from hospitals to a free-standing organ recovery center resulted in significantly reduced surgeon hours, air travel, and cost, according to a recent study which analyzed 915 liver transplants performed from 2001 to 2011.
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Conflicts of interest are common among members of committees that produce clinical practice guidelines for specialty organizations, according to several recent studies.
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A group of bioethicists at New York Presbyterian Hospital implemented a new process to determine who can perform clinical ethics consults.