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Federal counterterrorism officials are warning about a disturbing pattern of incidents in which people tried to gain access to hospitals by posing as surveyors from the Joint Commission.
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The Joint Commission is applauding the public release of information on hospital clinical performance by the Hospital Quality Alliance. The measures used to produce this information meet the highest contemporary standards for reliability and validity.
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Sixteen people including one who died acquired hepatitis C virus at three different clinics in Maryland after being injected with a contaminated radionuclide solution used in cardiac imaging, an epidemiologist reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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A new virulent strain of Clostridium difficile rapidly continues to emerge in both the United States and Canada, infectious disease physicians reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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In January 2005, a patient was diagnosed by Markowitz and colleagues at Aaron Diamond Research Center with primary HIV infection with 3-drug-class-resistant HIV-1 (3DCR HIV), who had sustained rapid depletion of CD4+ lymphocyte count and rapid clinical progression to AIDS.
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An impending visit by surveyors from the Joint Commission improved hand hygiene compliance rates, which remained higher than baseline even after the inspection, an epidemiologist reports.
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The Joint Commission has launched a new web-based patient safety initiative that continues its strong emphasis on infection control.
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A new patient safety center founded by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will include an emphasis on infection control. Not surprisingly, improving hand hygiene was the most frequently cited problem area cited by ICPs in a poll posted shortly after the web site debuted.
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Low back pain is among the top three most common complaints seen in primary care ambulatory medicine. Affecting up to 90% of the population at some time in their lives, it is second only to upper respiratory tract infection as a symptom-related reason for primary care visits. Men and women are equally afflicted with low back pain, with a steadily increasing prevalence with age.
