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The importation of tuberculosis into the United States via a group of screened refugees underscores how difficult it is to eliminate tuberculosis in the United States when some 2 billion people are infected globally.
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As patient safety becomes more of a mainstream movement, the issue of disclosing and apologizing for infections, medical errors, and other adverse events is coming to the fore. No longer is the preferred strategy to see, hear, and speak no evil.
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Surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations are putting an unprecedented emphasis on infection controls most frustrating problem hand washing.
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A quality improvement method using standardized measures to track hospital performance for pneumonia care and other conditions was strongly validated in a study by researchers at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is hailing the passage of federal patient safety legislation that will encourage the voluntary reporting of medical errors, serious adverse events, and their underlying causes.
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Even as tuberculosis threatens to take an insidious new appearance in the United States, draft federal guidelines for TB control in health care settings remain mired in controversy and bureaucratic limbo.
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Synopsis: In a meta-analysis of studies assessing methodologies for the diagnosis of intravascular device-related bloodstream infections, paired quantitative blood cultures drawn from the catheter and a peripheral site are the most accurate. However, numerous other methods, including quantitative catheter culture, semiquantitative catheter culture, and differential time to blood culture positivity have sufficient sensitivity and specificity to be clinically useful.
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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has developed into the clear choice as the reperfusion strategy in acute myocardial infarction (MI) when weighed against fibrinolysis. When used within 12 hours of symptom onset, PCI has demonstrated increased myocardial salvage, preservation of left ventricular function, and overall improved survival as compared with intravenous fibrinolytic strategies.
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Heat illness includes several distinct syndromes, presenting across a range of severity; two distinct syndromes include heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Heat exhaustion, the least concerning of these illnesses, is seen in patients who have been exposed excessively to high ambient temperatures for prolonged time periods.
