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The Joint Commission has amended an infection control standard that called for hand hygiene compliance of more than 90%, conceding that the expectation was too high after a group of eight leading hospitals could muster only an 82% rate in a performance improvement project.
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Hospitals should provide pertussis vaccines to their health care workers free of charge, but should still treat employees with antibiotics if they have unprotected exposure to patients with pertussis and work with patients at high risk, such as young infants, a federal vaccine advisory panel says.
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When patients don't follow their discharge plan and end up back in the hospital or fail to keep their chronic disease under control, resulting in complications, it could be that they simply don't understand what they're expected to do.
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A program that provides face-to-face case management and hormone injection services for women at risk for pre-term birth has reduced the spontaneous pre-term birth rate by 8% among the Medicaid population served by the program.
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In a study reported online by the American Journal of Cardiology, Henry J. Michtalik, MD, MPH, and his colleagues tested heart failure patients on admission and discharge for levels of a protein that's considered a marker for heart stress.
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A proactive approach to hospital readmissions by Health Alliance Plan (HAP) resulted in a 14% decline in readmissions for heart failure in the Medicare population when compared to the previous year.
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The last place patients want to end up after a hospital stay is right back in the hospital.
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A comprehensive "prehabilitation" exercise program for patients with severe knee arthritis can improve strength and functional ability before knee replacement surgery, reports a study in the February issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
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With Medicare's 2009 change in the definition of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC), the door opened for keeping patients up to 23 hours and 59 minutes.
