The Heightened Importance of Cleanliness for Patient Safety
According to the World Health Organization, it is estimated one in every 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care caused by a range of adverse events, with nearly 50 percent of them preventable.
What’s New in Antiviral/Antibacterial Disinfectants?
Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are developing new formulas that will last longer and provide greater protection with some new products already on the market.
Cleanliness Guidelines for Healthcare Settings
To ensure patient safety, facilities must require strict cleaning standards are met by properly trained staff.
Proper Use of Personal Protective Equipment in Healthcare Settings
It’s not enough for healthcare facilities to have PPE on hand; it must be consistently and properly used.
Establishing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
The adoption of ASPs has resulted in a reduction of antimicrobial expenditures, but stopping the tide of multidrug-resistant organisms depends on leadership’s commitment to track data down to the patient level.
Making Sense of the Suicide Epidemic
Despite education and intervention efforts, suicide rates are at a global all-time high. As surviving loved ones suffer, public health officials struggle to find solutions to a problem that is both pervasive and complex.
The Misdiagnosis Dilemma
Why is misdiagnosis so often revealed with a second opinion? And what can be done to curb the associated costs of diagnostic errors that affect both the medical profession and patients?
Quality Improvement Programs: Hurdles to Optimizing Care
Many QI programs are subject to missteps, but approaches that implement QI essentials can bring healthcare closer to realizing its potential.
Superbug Apocalypse: A Post-Antibiotic Era?
Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But now, widespread antimicrobial resistance caused by environments, hosts and overmedication may soon be the demise of these “wonder drugs.”
AMA Joins with Other Organizations to Reform Prior-Authorization Requirements
The American Medical Association and a coalition of 16 other organizations representing physicians, medical groups, hospitals, pharmacists and patients have devised a set of 21 principles to guide reform of utilization management programs.
