hospital-acquired conditions

Ensuring patient safety is a top goal at a hospital and a prime responsibility for a hospital CMO.

In the most serious problems documented by regulators, rehab hospital errors involved patient deaths.

The National Association for Healthcare Quality has set national standards for quality and safety.

Eugene Litvak has been on a mission to save U.S. hospitals money and improve the lives of doctors, nurses, and...

Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for thousands of medical issues.

To chart the scope of pregnancy-related infections, ProPublica purchased and analyzed seven years of Texas' hospital discharge data.

This HealthLeaders podcast focuses on several infection prevention topics, including respiratory virus season, emerging pathogen considerations, and healthcare-acquired conditions.

An element of clinician engagement is giving them meaningful ways to influence a healthcare organization, a new CMO says.

A spike of antimicrobial resistant pathogens during the coronavirus pandemic does not bode well for the future.

The health system has focused on catheter-associated urinary tract infection, central line-associated bloodstream infection, Clostridium difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and...

The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight...

To streamline the admissions process for emergency department patients, Tufts Medical Center is using a clinical communication and collaboration platform...