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The Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety has launched a new "in-development" Patient Safety Practices resource on the center's web site.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is listed as a co-authoring agency on a recently published book that urges patients to demand that health care workers wash their hands.
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Several factors have been reported to predict the outcome of acute stroke, including the modified Rankin scale, length of hospital stay, age and gender, severity of presenting deficit as measured by the initial NIH Stroke Scale, history of diabetes, and in-hospital infections.
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Patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have a dysfunctional CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) epithelial chloride channel. As a result, the channel prevents their secretions from being adequately hydrated.
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Ever since the first Goldman index, severe aortic stenosis (AS) has been known to be a risk factor for perioperative morbidity and mortality for non-cardiac surgery.
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For decades, lactulose, a non-absorbable disaccharide, has been considered to be the standard-of-care, first-line therapy for acute (overt) hepatic encephalopathy. Hepatic encephalopathy (HE), a complication of decompensated liver cirrhosis, represents a spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from mild neuropsychiatric changes to coma and is a common indication for hospital admission.