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With a growing knowledge about the risk of infections and patient safety hazards such as medication errors, patients are becoming health care's new partners in prevention. Driven by consumer advocacy groups and the patient safety movement, the age of the empowered patient is at hand.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon issue new guidelines on multidrug resistant pathogens that include a more aggressive approach to the controversial issue of active surveillance, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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Hospitals have begun offering pertussis vaccines to their employees in an effort to protect vulnerable patients from a disease that is most contagious in its early stages, when it may go undetected.
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Having made infection control and patient safety top priorities in recent years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is now taking on the thorny issue of flu vaccinations for health care workers in a new standard that becomes effective next year.
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Joint Commission Resources (JCR) a division of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has collaborated with a leading national infection control group to publish a workbook.
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Arguing that the vast majority of hospital infections are preventable, the former lieutenant governor of New York is warning that nosocomial infections could be the "next asbestos" in terms of legal liability.
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The world is on pandemic watch, with the prevailing public health fear that a currently circulating avian influenza A (H5N1) will mutate with a human strain of influenza and become transmissible from person to person.
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Synopsis: Active, prospective laboratory-based surveillance of community-onset staphylococcal skin and soft-tissue infections at an Atlanta hospital found that 72% were caused by MRSA.
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The federal government's pandemic influenza plan lacks urgency in the area of vaccine development, which must be the linchpin to any public health response, two leading infectious disease groups warn.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is embroiled in a legal battle with the American Nurses Association (ANA) over the issue of hospital staffing levels.
