While antibiotic-resistant infections are on the rise, MRSA infection rates...
The CDC has released two findings on healthcare-associated infections this week, one bringing alarming news and the other encouraging news to the infection control community. On Monday, the CDC...
View ArticleInfection prevention strategies worth investing in
Earlier this month, Alicia Caramenico with FierceHealthcare posted an editorial on the “3 ways to fight hospital infections”. In light of the recent research published by JAMA Internal Medicine that...
View ArticleNew study shows annual deaths from medical errors are higher than originally...
The Institute of Medicine estimates that 98,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors. Causes of medical errors are categorized based on errors of commission, errors of omission,...
View ArticleRemoving barriers to hand hygiene compliance
Becker’s Clinical Quality and Infection Control recently featured a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology that explored the most common barriers to hand hygiene compliance. In...
View ArticleAre lower hospital reimbursements and penalties really the best methods for...
Since the 1800s, the topics of patient safety and preventing infections have been known among healthcare workers and healthcare facilities. In the 1970s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticleHow can stakeholders work together to reduce preventable patient deaths?
As mentioned in our previous blog, the Senate Health, Education and Labor Pensions Committee held a hearing on national efforts to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). While hospitals...
View ArticleHow to make systems work in healthcare
In today’s world, knowledge is abundant in every field, and we have vast amounts of information to make our lives easier that was unavailable just a few decades ago. This amount of knowledge has also...
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Clean Hands Matter… Engage Patients and Their Visitors in the Culture of Safety
Sustaining high levels of hand hygiene compliance has been a challenge for more than 150 years and subject to great study. In summary, we all know hand hygiene is the number 1 way to prevent the spread...
View ArticleStudy shows how high hand hygiene compliance directly impacts infection rates
Currently, most hospitals isolate patients with infections such as MRSA. This practice can cost millions annually and often results in patient anxiety, depression and fewer visits by healthcare...
View ArticleProventix’s response to a published study of the nGage system’s accuracy
This month the American Journal of Infection Control published the study Accuracy of a radiofrequency identification (RFID) badge system to monitor hand hygiene behavior during routine clinical...
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