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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new approach for HIV testing in laboratories that capitalizes on the latest technology to improve diagnosis of acute infection, the earliest stage of HIV infection when people are most likely to transmit the virus.
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People who have cognitive problems often face difficulties when they are hospitalized. They are in different surroundings, with different schedules, different caregivers. Symptoms of cognitive problems can become more pronounced, agitation worse. They may become violent where before they were not.
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There has long been a hole in the data collected on joint replacements: Patient-reported outcomes over an extended period of time were missing.
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A short study in the July issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine1 may change handoffs forever. For the first time, a tool created to judge the quality of how one physician passes the baton to another has been validated as effective.
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Serious reportable events the words can send a shiver up the spine of a quality professional, and any healthcare professionals who are present when such events occur.
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Patient- and family-centered care is at the heart of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), says Deborah Maurer, RN, MBA, administrator, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Transplant Services.
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At the American College of Surgeons annual quality conference in New York in July, surgeons outlined some of the gains that data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database has helped them achieve.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to investigate outbreaks as a result of unsafe injection practices
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Federal public health officials recently contacted clinicians at the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit in Omaha to determine if the facility could house Ebola patients if needed as the record outbreak in Western Africa continues.
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The most shocking of the recent laboratory mishaps and biosafety breaches was the discovery of a long-forgotten cache of live smallpox in a lab storage area at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
