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Using the criteria of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to detect ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is labor intensive and subjective.
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This prospective cohort study was carried out in a 30-bed medical-surgical ICU in London to determine whether culturing throat and rectal swabs would identify more cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization than just swabbing at keratinized skin carriage sites such as the anterior nares, perineum, and axillae.
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Delayed ischemic insults are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).
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A large body of literature has developed over the last decade consistently showing improved outcomes with increased use of critical care physicians in the management of patients in the ICU.
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In This Issue: Guidelines for prediabetes from The American College of Endocrinology; statins for the prevention of dementia? Possible help for women suffering from sexual side effects while on antidepressants; government incentives for electronic prescribing; FDA Actions.
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This is the first of a two-part series on time management for risk managers. This month, we look at the need to manage time effectively. Next month's Healthcare Risk Management will include more tips on time management for risk managers.
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New research is revealing that blogs written by medical professionals may pose a threat to patient privacy when the authors of the blogs inadvertently reveal patient information.
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Although blatant violations of patient privacy are rare, supposedly anonymous medical bloggers who provide information about their location, subspecialty or other personal details may reveal their identity to blog readers.
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Potentially preventable medical errors that occur during or after surgery may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to new estimates by the Department of Health & Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, MD.
