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Your next patient is a healthy, fit 45-year-old nonsmoking woman. She says her menstrual periods are now less regular, and she reports having intermittent hot flashes. Newly divorced, she is now sexually active and wonders which contraceptive is right for her. What's your recommendation?
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While women now have more contraceptive options, many still struggle with achieving success with their chosen contraceptive method. What can clinicians do to improve method success?
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The American Public Health Association (APHA) has just issued a policy statement calling for schools of public health, pharmacy, and medicine to include specific education around the adverse impact of douching on reproductive and maternal outcomes.
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A new generation of physicians is reinvigorating the field of cardiac arrest research. I am grateful that two of the experts in this area have written this issue of EM Reports. After reading this, I anticipate you will place these principles into practice.
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The error was as dramatic as it was unimaginable: Surgeons at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN, recently removed the wrong kidney from a patient with kidney cancer.
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The Joint Commission will soon be releasing a revised version of the universal protocol, reports Peter Angood, MD, vice president and chief patient safety officer for The Joint Commission.
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In a campaign that earned it the prestigious Ernest Amory Codman Award from The Joint Commission, Christiana Care Health Services of Wilmington, DE, reduced the mortality rate for patients with severe sepsis from 61.7% to 30.2% by addressing three major areas of sepsis care: identification of patients with sepsis, resuscitation strategies, and ICU management.
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How do you engage the top leadership of your facility in the pursuit of quality improvement? This has been one of the greatest challenges for quality professionals and is now a key objective of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) "5 Million Lives" campaign.
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In the absence of any meaningful literature that identify the number of preventable hospital-associated infections (HAIs) that occur in the Untied States, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) was asked by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to provide such an estimate.
