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Aggressive statin therapy is associated with slowed progression and even regression of atherosclerosis.
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Clinicians are typically introduced to the academic phenomenon of borderline personality disorder (BPD) during their psychiatric rotations in medical school.
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Aggressive statin therapy is associated with slowed progression and even regression of atherosclerosis.
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The explosion of infection rate disclosure laws in recent years caught the health care epidemiology community so off guard, the metaphor used at many early meetings on the phenomenon was that "the train has left the station."
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A "tool kit" created by an expert panel on hospital infection reporting laws recommends that health care worker influenza vaccination rates be included as a quality measure and that workers refusing immunization be required to sign declination forms.
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Pronovost and colleagues conducted a multi-hospital cohort study aimed at reducing the rate of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) in ICUs. The intervention focused on increasing adherence to evidence-based CDC recommendations for catheter insertion. In summary, these are:
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Physicians take an oath to do no harm to their patients. That covers not just life-and-death decisions, but the routine protections against infection. To emphasize that connection, Johanna Goldfarb, MD, head of pediatric infectious diseases at Children's Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic, asks health care workers to take an oath to comply with hand hygiene.
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As part of an increasing emphasis on patient empowerment and education, infection control professionals have seen arcane terms such as "nosocomial" de-emphasized in favor of clearer language.
