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Seven institutions participating in a Joint Commission and American College of Surgeons quality-improvement project to reduce colorectal surgical-site infection rates saved more than $3.7 million by avoiding 135 infections over a 2½-year period.
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The 406-bed St. Raphael Campus of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital is the recipient of the inaugural Partnership in Prevention Award, a joint project of HHS, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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Despite the looming threat of multidrug-resistant organisms, authors of a new study found wide variations in hospitals' screening and infection-control practices within their intensive-care units.
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Charles Sanford left a Minneapolis shelter for his own apartment in June, a move that has meant relief from the anxiety of being homeless and the joy of cooking in his own kitchen.
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A four-year federally financed program aimed at reducing rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections made big strides in prevention but not necessarily in state-by-state participation.
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A national project targeting central line-associated bloodstream infections has lowered overall rates of such infections by 40% among participating hospitals, according to government data released Monday.
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Imagine a hospital where the ICU's myriad devices seamlessly exchange data and where a patient's loss of dignity is viewed as a preventable harm on the same order as a fall or a bloodstream infection.
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A trio of independent studies released last week bolstered the view that U.S. patient safety is not improving despite the efforts of doctors, hospitals, the federal government and various patient-safety groups.
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California health officials recently announced a drop in hospital central line infections but didn't mention that they had found flaws in the reporting of one of the most serious infections.
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A New Hampshire hospital says it's notifying about 500 employees and affiliated clinicians the state is recommending they be tested for hepatitis C after an outbreak of the disease linked to a lab worker there.
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