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In a move that may clear the way for federal legislation aimed at preventing outbreaks of bloodborne diseases in ambulatory care, a broad-based coalition of patient safety advocates and health care groups has launched a national education campaign on needle safety.
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Accurate microbiologic diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is problematic. Infecting organisms reside in a biofilm, and standard culture techniques appear to have suboptimal sensitivity.
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How do you know if your needlestick prevention program is working? A decrease in injuries is a good barometer but sometimes that could reflect a lack of reporting rather than an improvement in safety.
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With more than 25 years experience as a critical care nurse, Barbara Jordan, RN, MSN, CCRN, could read the bleak signs and symptoms of the patient before her like a map to a destination she had been before.
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It is no small sign of hard-earned wisdom that the mother who has lost a loved one to a health care-associated infection (HAI) doesn't want to be cast in angry hues, decrying the failure of a health system that took her 27-year-old son Josh along with some 100,000 other patients felled by infection in 2006.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) have introduced legislation that would require not only pharmaceutical companies, but also makers of medical devices and biologics, to publicly report any money over $100 that they give to physicians within a year.
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President Obama may have signed the $787 billion stimulus package with the expectation that it will create jobs and jumpstart the economy, but businesses including those in the business of health care are still feeling financial pain.
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned Parenthood of Connecticut were among those filing lawsuits asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut to invalidate the administrative regulation finalized in December by the U.S. Department of Health aÿ
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[Editor's note: Medical Ethics Advisor will update this story in the April issue. Prior to press time, NHPCO secured a one-year moratorium on cuts in the Medicare Hospice Benefit via President Barack Obama's signing of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.]
