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Even as some health care epidemiologists are raising strong doubts about the cost-effectiveness of active surveillance cultures (ASCs), legislators in Illinois and Maryland are considering laws that would mandate the practice to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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The numbers are in and they aren't good. Data presented recently in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America document an inexorable increase in staph infections in the nation's hospitals.
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The Veterans Health Administration is rolling out one of the most ambitious efforts to date to control the rampant rise of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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Hospitals in the United States are under increasing pressure to perform active surveillance cultures (ASC) for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other pathogens among newly admitted patients. Results of such cultures can then be used to direct contact precautions to prevent transmission of MRSA in health care settings.
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Despite existing national recommendations to the contrary, more than a third of hospitals reporting performance measurement data to The Joint Commission are not offering pneumococcal vaccine to their pneumonia patients, a recent report reveals.
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The Joint Commission has created some Q&A clarification of its standards regarding tissue handling and transplantation in light of some highly publicized incidents of inappropriate practices.
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Intensive intervention using Advance Practice Nurses reduced the use of side rails on nursing home beds and lowered the rate of bed-related falls and injuries.
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Occipital nerve stimulation appears to decrease the cluster pain and attack frequency in most, but not all, patients with chronic drug-resistant cluster headaches.
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Hospital legends about the relative availability (or unavailability) of services/personnel on weekends vs weekdays often lead to jocularity about the wisdom of choosing one's day to be admitted to the hospital carefully!
