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Many health care organizations are gathering feedback from patients to determine their satisfaction with health services. Armed with this information, senior leaders and managers can establish customer-driven process improvement priorities and make more informed process redesign decisions.
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A new preadmission program at the University of California (UC) Davis Health System is building a stronger link between hospital and physicians office and identifying issues much earlier in the process issues that might affect length of stay (LOS).
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Creation of a Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will result in more deaths from AIDS in the Central American nations participating in the agreement, charge several organizations that work to provide health care to poor populations.
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Research in an inner-city population has showed that many of the people, particularly women, diagnosed with HIV infection continued to engage in unprotected sex after their diagnosis and prevention education.
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UCB Pharma Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration recently issued a Dear health care professional letter advising health care professionals of the risk of dispensing errors between lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra), an antiretroviral, and levetiracetam (Keppra), an antiepileptic drug.
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According to UNAIDS in Geneva, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is growing despite the worlds attention and efforts at increasing prevention and treatment efforts.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiologys (APIC) position paper on disclosure of nosocomial infection rates includes key points summarized in this article.
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Fueled in part by the third case of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) in the United States, William Jarvis, MD, urges more aggressive hospital surveillance measures than those currently recommended nationally by the CDC.
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In light of so many providers having difficulty meeting the standard of care for medication administration, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, is taking action.
