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A fascinating, philosophical exchange among some of the nation's leading health care epidemiologists recently came down to the value of zero.
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The Joint Commission has reiterated its standards require a clean hospital environment in light of comments and criticism at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's April 16th hearing on "Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs): A Preventable Epidemic."
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The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the patient safety issue of medication administration, warning that children are at particular risk of harmful medication errors.
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Once primarily a problem for large tertiary care hospitals, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections increasingly are a patient safety hazard in community settings.
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The onus for much of the "needless suffering and death" caused by health care-acquired infections (HAIs) was recently ascribed to a failure of leadership by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a scathing report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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Even as health care epidemiologists fear that "getting to zero" infection prevention efforts may be unleashing some unintended consequences, one highly successful program associated with the movement recently drew the praises of Congress.
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The seemingly benign use of a checklist to ensure infection control measures are followed during a clinical procedure erupted in controversy recently when a federal agency questioned whether one such program fell into the category of human research.
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FDA drug approval to change? Urinary incontinence in women; how metabolism of certain drugs can be predicted by genetic analysis; bowel preps may compromise renal function especially in the elderly according to a new study; FDA Actions.
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12-lead ECG and lead II rhythm strip obtained from a 72-year-old man with hypertension, ESRD, and heart failure. Which one lead is of most concern to you?