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As part of its journey to prevent health care-associated infections, Florida Hospital's clinical excellence team asked staff what risks they saw. The answers they got were sometimes unexpected, but they helped the team understand the organization's culture and determine which fundamentals should be saved and which should be altered.
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When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it would publicly report hospitals' readmission and mortality rates for heart failure, heart attack, and pneumonia, Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) was front and center.
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Hatz and colleagues estimated risk of Japanese encephalitis (JE) in travelers using data on United Kingdom and Swiss travelers to JE risk areas, and the respective JE vaccine usage in these countries for the year 2004.
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Dondorp and colleagues conducted two open-label, randomized trials that compared malaria treatment efficacies in western Cambodia (Pailin) and northwestern Thailand (Wang Pha).
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This report describes an outbreak of both bubonic and pneumonic plague in northwestern Uganda, where 127 clinically diagnosed plague cases were identified during a 5½ month span.
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In this issue: WHO recommendations for antiviral use for H1N1 flu; antibiotic use trends for acute respiratory tract infection; denosumab clears FDA Expert Panel; FDA Actions.
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The federal stimulus package with billions in health care and technology funding will help hospitals nationwide to transform paper-driven processes to electronic health records (EHRs).
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Infectious diseases researchers have observed some interesting trends involving patients with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and cancer, as well as HIV seroconversion.
