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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that infection preventionists implement quality improvement (QI) programs or strategies to enhance appropriate use of indwelling catheters and to reduce the risk of CA-UTI based on a facility risk assessment.
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In a move that could affect hospital infection prevention programs, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is taking the first steps toward a possible airborne infectious diseases standard.
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Although generally institutions were well prepared for the H1N1 crisis, respondents to this survey said they had to neglect other medical duties, were aware of antiviral hoarding by colleagues and overall favored mandatory vaccination of health care workers, the authors of this timely report conclude.
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What's it like to make the move from hospital infection preventionist to independent consultant?
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(Editor's note: In this issue of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, we continue our focus on infection prevention advances in the surgical suite, following our report on blunt suture needles last month with this special report on a new standard care emerging for skin cleaning of the patient surgical site.)
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Surgical-site infections (SSI) significantly increase the chance of hospital readmission and can cost as much as $60,000 per patient, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers who conducted the largest study of its kind to date.
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Citing a fatal complacency during about the same stage of the 1957 influenza pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention is urging everyone to be vaccinated for H1N1 influenza A.
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Case managers are a hospital's first line of defense when it comes to smoothing transitions of care and preventing readmissions.
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Case managers typically have concentrated on what has to happen before the patient can be discharged from the hospital, but now, to reduce readmissions, hospitals also have to take into consideration what happens to patients after they leave the acute care setting, says Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, vice president, clinical performance improvement, Medical City Dallas Hospital, and health care consultant and partner in Case Management Concepts LLC.
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As part of the ongoing education to prepare for Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) program, Cynthia Lawson, RN-BC, MBA, CPHQ, director of case management at North Hills (TX) Hospital is teaching her case management staff to think innovatively when reviewing charts.
