In the absence of adequate published guidance, Iowa researchers produce a five-tiered classification of procedures, encompassing "clean, aseptic, sterile-superficial, sterile-invasive," and "surgical-like procedures."
The relationship between transitions of care and medical errors is so clear, that leadership teams should be aware of what's required to protect patient safety.
What happens at a hospital when a patient is transferred among care teams, treatment facilities, or...
Quality data looks good in ads and on hospital and health system websites. A little too good at times.
A hospital website would seem like an obvious place to deliver healthcare information, especially information about the quality of services. But, for the...
No one knows for sure how long a patient should take an antibiotic, new research suggests.
Conventional wisdom is that patients who fail to complete a prescribed course of antibiotics put themselves and others at risk of antibiotic resistance.
Ranking hospitals means constant tweaks and occasional errors in the effort to get it right. The effort is still a work in progress, but transparency and access to better data would help move things along.
