Download or read book An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Mandatory Reporting of Health Care Associated Infection written by Yin Tchen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study evaluated the effectiveness of mandatory infection rate reporting on health care associated infection rates in Pennsylvania hospitals. These infection rates were hypothesized to be decreased due to mandatory public reporting required by state legal statute. Archival data of 145 hospitals were analyzed. These hospitals had been grouped into four different peer groups according to the level of complexity of services, number of patients treated, and percentage of surgical procedures performed. Results demonstrated that health care associated infections in Pennsylvania hospitals did not decrease as the legislation had intended. The four most common types of hospital acquired infections: Surgical site infection, blood stream infection, ventilator assisted pneumonia, and urinary tract infection had not decreased in 2007, compared with the first reporting period (in 2005) subsequent to legislature enactment (in 2004). However, a small decrease of surgical site infection rate occurred compared to the 2005 baseline. Possible explanations were discussed.
Download or read book Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control written by C. Glen Mayhall and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 5027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and updated for its Fourth Edition, this highly acclaimed volume is the most comprehensive reference on hospital epidemiology and infection control. Written by over 150 leading experts, this new edition examines every type of hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infection and addresses every issue relating to surveillance, prevention, and control of these infections in patients and in healthcare workers. This new edition features new or significantly increased coverage of emerging infectious diseases, avian influenza, governmental regulation of infection control and payment practices related to hospital-acquired infections, molecular epidemiology, the increasing prevalence of community-acquired MRSA in healthcare facilities, system-wide infection control provisions for healthcare systems, hospital infection control issues following natural disasters, and antimicrobial stewardship in reducing the development of antimicrobial-resistant organisms.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book Public Reporting of Healthcare associated Infections written by Stephen Perez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in U.S. hospitals. Policy makers have responded with a variety of state and federal policies to reduce infections by increasing the visibility and accountability of hospital performance. One policy initiative that has gained momentum is state-level legislative mandates requiring hospitals to report HAI-related performance data, which often includes public release of this data. These reporting mandates have produced mixed results, however, regarding their impact on healthcare organizational processes, patient outcomes or consumer decision-making.This dissertation comprises three papers that explore the relationship between HAI public reporting, organizational climate and HAI infection rates. The first paper presents a conceptual framework derived from an integrative review of the HAI reporting literature that proposes new pathways for testing these relationships. The second paper uses data from the Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Cost-Effectiveness Refined (P-NICER) survey, specifically the Leading a Culture of Quality for Infection Prevention (LCQ-IP) instrument, to examine differences in infection prevention organizational climate between hospitals in states with and without HAI reporting mandates. Bivariate and multivariate analysis revealed no statistically significant associations between key climate domains supporting infection prevention and state reporting mandates, despite finding noted associations with other hospital characteristics. The final paper uses National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance data, from the P-NICER survey, to conduct a quasi-experimental longitudinal analysis examining the impacts of reporting mandates on Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections in U.S. hospitals. Poisson regression models yielded no statistically significant differences in incidence rate ratios for C. difficile at varying time intervals before and after implementation of reporting mandates. Sensitivity analysis showed similar findings, with no differences in rates of infections over time between hospitals in reporting and non-reporting states. This dissertation provides a well-circumscribed analysis of varying organizational factors and patient outcomes thought to be impacted by mandatory HAI reporting. Findings are used to propose new directions for nursing research and public policy.
Download or read book Advances in Patient Safety written by Kerm Henriksen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Download or read book WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care provide health-care workers (HCWs), hospital administrators and health authorities with a thorough review of evidence on hand hygiene in health care and specific recommendations to improve practices and reduce transmission of pathogenic microorganisms to patients and HCWs. The present Guidelines are intended to be implemented in any situation in which health care is delivered either to a patient or to a specific group in a population. Therefore, this concept applies to all settings where health care is permanently or occasionally performed, such as home care by birth attendants. Definitions of health-care settings are proposed in Appendix 1. These Guidelines and the associated WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and an Implementation Toolkit (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/) are designed to offer health-care facilities in Member States a conceptual framework and practical tools for the application of recommendations in practice at the bedside. While ensuring consistency with the Guidelines recommendations, individual adaptation according to local regulations, settings, needs, and resources is desirable. This extensive review includes in one document sufficient technical information to support training materials and help plan implementation strategies. The document comprises six parts.
Download or read book Closing the Quality Gap written by Kaveh G. Shojania and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global report on infection prevention and control written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the report is to describe the status of infection prevention and control (IPC) implementation globally, to identify future direction for monitoring and evaluation of IPC, and to set the priorities for strategic implementation of IPC in light of the gaps identified.
Download or read book Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals written by Julia S. Garner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mandatory Reporting of Healthcare Associated Infections written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infectious Disease Surveillance written by Nkuchia M. M'ikanatha and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated edition of Infectious Disease Surveillance is for frontline public health practitioners, epidemiologists, and clinical microbiologists who are engaged in communicable disease control. It is also a foundational text for trainees in public health, applied epidemiology, postgraduate medicine and nursing programs. The second edition portrays both the conceptual framework and practical aspects of infectious disease surveillance. It is a comprehensive resource designed to improve the tracking of infectious diseases and to serve as a starting point in the development of new surveillance systems. Infectious Disease Surveillance includes over 45 chapters from over 100 contributors, and topics organized into six sections based on major themes. Section One highlights the critical role surveillance plays in public health and it provides an overview of the current International Health Regulations (2005) in addition to successes and challenges in infectious disease eradication. Section Two describes surveillance systems based on logical program areas such as foodborne illnesses, vector-borne diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, viral hepatitis healthcare and transplantation associated infections. Attention is devoted to programs for monitoring unexplained deaths, agents of bioterrorism, mass gatherings, and disease associated with international travel. Sections Three and Four explore the uses of the Internet and wireless technologies to advance infectious disease surveillance in various settings with emphasis on best practices based on deployed systems. They also address molecular laboratory methods, and statistical and geospatial analysis, and evaluation of systems for early epidemic detection. Sections Five and Six discuss legal and ethical considerations, communication strategies and applied epidemiology-training programs. The rest of the chapters offer public-private partnerships, as well lessons from the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic and future directions for infectious disease surveillance.
Download or read book Public Reporting of Hospital Acquired Infection Rates Empowering Consumers Saving Lives Serial No 109 85 March 29 2006 109 2 Hearing written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management written by Liam Donaldson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.
Download or read book Bennett Brachman s Hospital Infections written by John V. Bennett and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2007 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential reference in the field for nearly thirty years, Bennett and Brachman's Hospital Infections is in its thoroughly updated Fifth Edition. Written by internationally recognized experts—many affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the book is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative guide to the recognition, management, prevention, and control of infections in all types of healthcare facilities. More than half of this edition's chapters have new authors who are current experts in the field. Important new chapters cover patient safety, public reporting, controlling antimicrobial-resistant pathogens (especially MRSA and VRE), fungi, and healthcare-associated infections caused by newer treatments such as invasive cardiology. This edition has a new two-color design.
Download or read book Finding What Works in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.
Download or read book Public Health Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antimicrobial Stewardship written by Kerry LaPlante and published by CABI. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where antimicrobial resistance amongst pathogens grows more prevalent, particularly in the hospital setting, antimicrobial stewardship is an evidence-based, proven measure in the battle against resistance and infection. This single comprehensive, definitive reference work is written by an international team of acknowledged experts in the field. The authors explore the effective use of coordinated antimicrobial interventions to change prescribing practice and help slow the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, ensuring that antimicrobials remain an effective treatment for infection. Amongst the first of its kind, this book provides infectious disease physicians, administrators, laboratory, pharmacy, nursing and medical staff with practical guidance in setting up antimicrobial stewardship programs in their institutions with the aim of selecting the optimal antimicrobial drug regimen, dose, duration of therapy, and route of administration.
