Creating a safety culture is the holy grail of employee health an environment in which employees have a heightened awareness of safety and a focus on wellness. But how do you get there?
Next season's trivalent influenza vaccines will contain the same strains as this year's vaccine but it's still important to get the annual flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The best thing you can do for patients may be to take care of your hardest working employees. Burnout not only affects the health and well being of health care workers, but it also leads to medical errors, higher infection rates, and injuries, says J. Bryan Sexton, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University in Durham, NC, and director of the Patient Safety Center for the Duke University Health System.
Imagine health as a team activity. What matters most isn't whether one person achieves personal health goals, but how well everyone does as a group.
In a multicenter study of patients with an episode of first proximal deep venous thrombosis, elastic compression stocking use did not prevent the development of post-thrombotic syndrome.
In a retrospective cohort study, elderly patients who were prescribed calcium-channel blockers (CCBs) with clarithromycin were at increased risk for developing acute kidney injury.
