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For hospitals and other providers, working with patient advocates can be a vital tool in building and maintaining the trust of the provider's community, a CDC communications specialist advised.
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The ever-increasing focus on prevention of HAIs could bring a number of unintended consequences, including inappropriate use of antibiotics and an unwillingness by hospitals to admit sicker patients.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney recaps the first day of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. Kickoff keynote speaker Dr. Allan Morrison, a professor and senior fellow at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.,...
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Many infection-prevention campaigns are setting a goal of eliminating all HAIs, but Dr. Allan Morrison, a hospital epidemiologist, says a target of zero infections is sometimes just not realistic.
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The CMS' move to cut reimbursements for two types of healthcare-associated infections did not prompt statistically significant declines in the rates of those infections, Harvard researchers found.
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More than half of patients hospitalized for a surgical-site infection within a year after knee- or hip-replacement surgery wound up being admitted again in the following year, a new study says.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Maureen McKinney previews the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology's annual conference in San Antonio June 4-6.
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