Improved Emergency Care Could Reduce Hospital Admissions
According to a three-year analysis by researchers at Mount Sinai, applying palliative care principles to emergency departments may reduce the... Read more
Protocol Urged for In-hospital Stroke Patients
A Canadian study published online in JAMA Neurology reveals that patients who had a stroke while hospitalised for another reason waited longer... Read more
Top 5 Ways to Improve Patient Experience
Becker’s Hospital Review recently published tips on how hospitals in the U.S. could improve their Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... Read more
Health Data Quality Questioned
Most US clinical registries that collect data on patient outcomes are substandard and do not really track in a systematic way how well physicians... Read more
Reducing Medication Administration Errors
This study aimed to develop clinical decision support (CDS) tools to decrease errors in medication administration, which have been shown to be... Read more
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COVID-19 Superheroes
It is five in the morning as a healthcare worker gets out of bed. Let us call her Emma. She is self-isolated from the rest of the family in her own home. It has been months since she hugged her children and her husband. She gets ready and heads out to work. It is barely seven in the morning when she begins her shift – one of many dozens she... Read more
My COVID-19 Superhero
My COVID-19 Superhero is my sister, Loretta Bowen. We are a family of eight children; our father has passed and our mother is 85. Elaine Rohr has Parkinson’s disease and over the last few years has gotten worse. She is no longer able to cook or write and it is frustrating for her to have such limitations in her activity of daily living.... Read more
Largest Hospital Network in Brazil Responds to COVID-19
Brazil has now become one of the epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the burden on its healthcare system is increasing daily. Paulo Moll, CEO of Rede D'Or São Luiz (RDSL) , the largest privately held, independent hospital operator in the country, speaks about the measures taken on the national level and within the RDSL system and shares... Read more
White Papers and Case Studies
Spotlight On: Sutter Health Fights Pneumonia One Toothbrush at a Time
2020 23 Apr
Pneumonia can be deadly in a hospital setting. Two main factors contribute to the approximately 20 percent mortality rate of this healthcare-associated infection (HAI). First, whatever condition brought the patient to the hospital in the first place has likely weakened them, making the patient more vulnerable to the illness. Plus, the germs that patients... Read more
Spotlight On: Inova Fairfax Medical Campus Reduces CLABSI with APSS #2
2020 23 Apr
HAIs are costly both in terms of harm/mortality and cost. Close attention to aseptic practices and monitoring patients can greatly reduce the incidence of these infections. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most costly type of hospital-acquired infections, both in terms of morbidity and mortality, and financial... Read more
Evaluation of the Microbial Tightness of Mini-Spike® 2 Chemo V - A Closed System Transfer Device
2019 08 Aug
In vitro study validating the microbial barrier function by means of airborne contamination Jürgen Gebel, Sapuna Kuriakose, Barbara Grüter, Martin Exner; University of Bonn Hospital, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Germany BACKGROUND Nosocomial infections pose a major problem in the healthcare system because they contribute... Read more
From Our Journals
Nosocomial Pneumonia
This review discusses some of the key advances from the 2005 ATS / IDSA... Read more
How to Change Fertility Care with Value-Based Healthcare
Summary: The VBHC Green Belt Blended Learning programme gives medical... Read more
Albumin Administration in Sepsis: The Case for and Against
Serum albumin is an essential plasma protein, with a variety of homeostatic... Read more
Creating a Safety Network for Use in a Clinical Environment
Developing Medical Device Plug-and-Play InteroperabIlity&n Read more
Value-Based Healthcare in 2017
Porter and Teisberg introduced value-based healthcare (VBHC) in their... Read more
Digitizing healthcare
Affidea launches new digital tools in its network to improve patient experience Read more