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Patients Need to Rethink the ‘Quality’ in Healthcare
Increasingly, patient satisfaction is an important and commonly used surrogate marker for healthcare quality. Further, reimbursement to physicians may be based on patient satisfaction as a “quality” metric. But the evidence linking a patient’s subjective sense of satisfaction and the actual delivery of quality care remains tenuous.
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Healthcare-Associated Infections: Better, But Not There Yet
One-day prevalence studies demonstrated that there was a 16% reduction in the risk of healthcare-associated infections from 2011 to 2015.
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Factors Associated With Urinary Tract Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria
The authors of a multicenter, retrospective, cohort study from southern and eastern Europe identified predictive factors for multidrug-resistant complicated urinary tract infections.
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A Review of Updated Guidelines Regarding Bradycardia and Cardiac Conduction Delay
The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society have established updated guidelines on the evaluation and management of patients with bradycardia and conduction delays. Many key elements remain largely unchanged from prior guideline recommendations on pacemakers published in 2008 and 2012, but there are important new definitions, recommendations, and areas of emphasis.
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New Drugs Needed for Bad Bugs
To stem the tide of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, the FDA will provide more incentives and market opportunities in 2019 as part of a five-year plan to get the pharmaceutical industry involved in restoring the dwindling drug pipeline. -
Devil in the Details in CDC Infection Control Draft
The CDC has issued draft guidelines for preventing infections in healthcare workers, urging collaboration between infection preventionists and employee health professionals. -
APIC, CDC Develop Infection Cards
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has teamed up with the CDC to create “quick assessment” cards with infection prevention tips on various patient populations or care environments.
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Will Paralytic Syndrome Fade With Fall?
As the fall 2018 viral season ended, there was hope that the national outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in children would follow historic patterns and fade out as well. -
CDC Debunks Flu Shot/Pregnancy Misinformation
Fighting off another flu vaccine falsehood, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is not recommending that pregnant women get their doctors’ approval before they “get vaccinated at a worksite clinic, pharmacy, or other location outside of their physician’s office.”
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Internet Trolls Fuel Vaccine Misinformation
In the wake of preventable infectious disease outbreaks and the ensuing controversy about vaccination, social media has become a battlefield of divisive rhetoric, some of it posted just to create the illusion of a “debate” and keep people divided.