New Contact Precautions for Visitors of Infectious Disease Patients
Leading infectious diseases experts have released new guidance for healthcare facilities looking to establish precautions for visitors of patients... Read more
Delivery System Reform From the Inside Out
An alliance of major healthcare organisations publicly committed to partnering with patients is forming under the aegis of the Institute for... Read more
Online Tool Helps Nurses Learn Evidence-Based Practice Skills
As tremendous advances are made in medicine, practitioners have new tools, but they also have more information to absorb and incorporate to... Read more
US Spends $4 Billion Per Year On Breast Cancer Overtreatment
A study published this week in Health Affairs reports that the US spends an estimated $4 billion per year on unnecessary medical expenditures... Read more
Higher Mortality For Hospital Patients With Alcohol Addiction
The mortality of alcohol dependent patients in general hospitals is many times higher than that of patients without alcohol dependency. In addition,... 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
Health spending in Greece under restraint measures
Way forward for sustainability of healthcare sector. Healthcare... Read more
How Comics Play a Role in Medicine
Jorge Muniz is an internal medicine physician assistant, illustrator,... Read more
Digital Health After COVID-19 - #medicosfrentealcovid Experience
Supporting the efforts to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19 infections,... Read more
Simulating Stress in Hospital Workflow
COMPUTER MODEL LOOKS AT ER FUNCTIONS, EVEN BEFORE IT’S BUILT With... Read more
Quality and Safety In Radiology
A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP Quality of Healthcare Quality healthcare... Read more
Imaging and ICU
Advice from a radiologist For the Imaging issue, ICU Management... Read more