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With 53,000 children dying each year and another 400,000 children living with chronic, life-threatening conditions, the need for hospice and palliative care for pediatric patients continues to grow.
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Good communication between hospice staff, patients, and families is a critical part of quality hospice care. The challenge for many hospice staff members is communication when the patient is a child.
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Caring for a pediatric hospice patient requires more than just a knowledge of hospice care...
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An epidemic of Clostridium difficile (C. diff ) in the United States is killing some 12,000 patients annually, in part because neither alcohol hand rubs nor soap and water can effectively remove the spore-forming bacillus from hands, researchers are finding.
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Smaller, community-based hospitals might face many of the same types of patient cases that require ethical decision-making; however, these hospitals often have fewer resources than large urban or academic centers with which to receive training in this area.
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A registry that serves as a collection point for Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms has collected forms from about 18,000 people in Oregon since the registry went live Dec. 3, 2009...
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ECRI Institute, a Plymouth Meeting, PA-based independent, nonprofit organization that researches approaches to improving patient care, announces the launch of its new Patient Safety Blog.
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In contrast to another recent federal report that cited little progress against health care associated infections (HAIs), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports an 18% decline in the national incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections.
