We are living in an age of Big Data. Thousands of terabytes of information have been collected on everything from internet behavior to RNA transcripts, spurred by the successful development of tools capable of analyzing massive amounts of information. Now, medical data—datasets from electronic health records and other sources—are joining the club. How might data […]
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Key Tips for Joint Commission Hygiene Standards As of January 1, 2018, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees just one clinician fail to clean his or her hands while in the process of direct patient care, the hospital will be cited with a deficiency, resulting in a Requirement for Improvement under the Infection Prevention and
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C. difficile, Hospital-Acquired Infection #1 C. difficile infection (CDI) is among the most serious of nosocomial infections, affecting nearly half a million Americans each year. The leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrheal infection, C. difficile spreads via spores that are highly resistant to physical and biochemical cleaning agents. Approximately 75 percent of CDI cases are acquired
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“We were really hoping it wasn’t here yet, to be honest with you,” Tom Chiller, MD, MPHTM, chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch at the CDC, said in an interview with CIDRAP. “This is definitely a hospital-transmitted organism.” The Center for Disease Control has outlined three main reasons for the increased concern: They also suggest a
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Children are better behaved when their parents are watching them, but social science suggests that this tendency to modify behavior when under observation does not disappear with age. It is known as the Hawthorne (or observer) Effect, and it can spell trouble for healthcare providers if they ignore the impact of this phenomenon on
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