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Your influenza vaccination campaign is coming into the public spotlight, and that means more pressure than ever on the logistics of administering and tracking those vaccinations.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's rapidly expanding National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) has long been the gold standard surveillance system for health care associated infections (HAIs).
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A compounding-pharmacy assessment tool developed by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) can provide critical guidance for hospitals in the wake of the national meningitis outbreak.
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"By the time we learned this was a problem around the country, the information from Tennessee had already narrowed it down to what the problem was. [It was] a textbook case of how to do it right." Paul Jarris, MD, executive director of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
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If a nursing home resident has a urinary tract infection, he or she may want to avoid the discomfort and side effects of being transported to the hospital for intravenous antibiotics, and would rather be cared for with medications in the nursing home.
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If genetic testing reveals a woman has a 60% chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, what good does this information do for a patient?
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In the near future, genomics will become an ordinary part of physician office visits, predicts Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, professor and director of the University of Miami (FL)'s Bioethics Program.
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If a patient has high blood pressure, prescribing medication might seem like a "no-brainer" to the physician. However, this isn't always true for the patient, according to Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, core faculty at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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When an institution's study portfolio gets large enough, its review board must decide: Is it time for a new board? And if so, how do you divide the work? At many institutions, that division is based on methodology studies are assigned to either a biomedical review board or one devoted to social-behavioral studies.
