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For community health care centers involved in the study of initiating rapid HIV screening, one of the key take-home messages is that this can be done efficiently with a little help from friends.
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As the percentage of women impacted by HIV increases, researchers and clinicians need to learn more about how HIV-infected women differ in adherence and treatment than HIV-infected men.
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The latest iteration of the DHHS guidelines was released December 1, 2009.
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Quality experts have long bemoaned the fact that medical students are taught precious little about quality and patient safety, but that trend has been changing thanks to a program sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
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Exeter (NH) Hospital has already demonstrated its ability to improve quality and patient safety, but it's nowhere near finished.
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The fire safety standards set forth by The Joint Commission, which have low compliance rates, should receive special attention from ED managers.
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As of January 2010, The Joint Commission has incorporated into its Quality Check web site (www.qualitycheck.org/consumer/searchQCR.aspx) the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') 30-day readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia Medicare patients.
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With The Joint Commission incorporating the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) 30-day readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia Medicare patients into its Quality Check web site (www.qualitycheck.org), the performance of individual facilities will come under greater scrutiny.
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Because many throughput problems experienced by EDs are not caused by EDs, those managers who find themselves operating in a vacuum have little chance of success.
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A hand hygiene video developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that asks patients to become partners in ensuring compliance by remindings caregivers to wash their hands prior to any treatment was shown to be effective in increasing the frequency with which patients questioned their providers about hand washing.
