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In April 1988, a young woman working in the transfusion department of the Clinical Center Hospital at the National Institutes of Health spun down a blood sample and was reaching to recap the top of the test tube.
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Core and supplement infection control strategies for Clostridium difficile discussed recently in Atlanta at the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections included the following:
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It was a "room of horrors" replete with blood (corn syrup plus food coloring) and spiderwebs.
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Frustrated patients, core measures that require timely intervention, and optimizing house beds. Those are the issues Bay Medical Center in Panama City, FL, decided it was going to deal when it hired a consultant in 2008.
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When your board calls for an improvement initiative, it carries some weight.
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Media already are pegging him for the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. If in fact President Obama nominates Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, to that position, what would it mean for the health care industry?
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Quality and utilization are going to be inextricably linked as the health care industry moves forward with the health care reform legislation.
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Demonstrating that you're prepared is important when Joint Commission surveyors knock on your door, says Susan Bukunt, RN, MPA, CPHQ, senior director of clinical quality and patient safety at El Camino Hospital with two campuses in Los Gatos and Mountain View, CA.
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Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD, which is part of the VHA Central Atlantic, chose to use safety coaches to monitor hand hygiene compliance.
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The staggering burden of health care associated infections (HAIs) in lives and dollars is "unacceptable," but changing the status quo is difficult because the health care system is woefully skewed toward treatment rather than prevention, Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said recently in Atlanta at the opening of the Fifth Decennial International Conference on HAIs.