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Researchers predict that by as early as 2010, there could be a shortage of 1,300 general surgeons.
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You might think that with a surgical-site infection (SSI) rate of 0%, you could rest on your laurels, but that's not the attitude of the quality professionals and staff members at Hawaii Medical Center East in Honolulu. Despite achieving such a "perfect" score, they decided to dig deeper and find additional ways to improve.
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Question: Over the past eight months, we have noticed a huge drop in collections from our patients' copay insurance. We are struggling as a result of this cash flow issue. How are others dealing with this dilemma?
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Recent outbreaks of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are a wake-up call to boost infection control practices. But they also underscore the prevalence of HCV and the continued occupational risk.
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Do you want to make changes needed to keep your patients happy, but unsure what needs to be changed? Ask them!
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You would think that going five years without an incident of wrong-site surgery would bring contentment to any surgery program. At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, however, leaders are constantly trying to improve, so they have incorporated a script, poster, and checklist into their surgery processes.
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Though many infection preventionists are inundated with data reporting requirements and are having difficulty maintaining routine surveillance activities, health care administrators are reluctant to provide them with "data mining" software, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) reports.
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Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as those common in staph and enterococci strains are increasingly the cause of infection, prolonged illness and death among a large patient population, The Joint Commission emphasizes in a new report aimed at health care senior leaders.
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IPs today must be willing to learn, willing to change, become tech-savvy, and demonstrate their programs save lives and dollars.
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In findings that dramatically undercut the growing perception that infection prevention has become a top priority for the health care system, many IPs are having budgets slashed and critical functions such as surveillance compromised, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) reported recently in Fort Lauderdale, FL, at the group's annual conference.
