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Using laboratory results from a recent 30-month period for case finding, Lamontagne and colleagues reviewed the medical records of all patients with fulminant Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) who received care in the ICUs of 2 tertiary-care hospitals in Quebec.
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Aspirin, Higher Doses No More Effective, Risky; Subclinical Hypothyroidism Treatment Benefits; FDA approvals
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Hospitals may become more liable to infection-related lawsuits as patients gain greater access to information and expect higher standards of care to prevent infections once considered inevitable, a legal scholar warns.
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A hospital that restricted the use of alcohol-based skin preps (ABSPs) in operating rooms due to concerns about surgical fires saw infection rates flame up in very short order.
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Consider yourself forewarned: It's time to switch to blunt suture needles in the operating room.
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Hospitals that have higher staff levels and better working conditions for nurses are safer for elderly intensive care unit patients, according to a recent report, led by Columbia University School of Nursing researchers that measured rates of hospital-associated infections.
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A former trial attorney who has represented hospitals in numerous malpractice claims seems the unlikely source of a call for transparency and full disclosure with regard to nosocomial infections and other adverse patient outcomes.
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Preventing transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) presents particular challenges in the long-term care setting, where residents are encouraged to interact and single rooms are typically at a premium.
