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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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This single-center, prospective, observational study of resuscitation for in-hospital cardiac arrest reveals that the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is inconsistent with current guidelines.
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In this multicenter clinical trial of patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia, a 7-day course of low-dose hydrocortisone infusion was associated with decreased signs of inflammation and significant reductions in duration of mechanical ventilation, hospital length of stay, and in-hospital mortality.
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This meta-analysis of published trials comparing HMEs and heated humidifiers found a significant reduction in VAP when they were used, particularly among patients who required more than 7 days in the ICU.
