Download or read book Public reporting of hospital acquired infection rates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations 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 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 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 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 Public Reporting of Hospital acquired Infection Rates written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public reporting of hospital-acquired infection rates : empowering consumers, saving lives : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 29, 2006.
Download or read book Public Reporting of Hospital acquired Infection Rates written by Michael Adam Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Public Reporting of Hospital acquired Infection Rates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lessons from the Pioneers written by Anna Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), also known as hospital-acquired infections or nosocomial infections, exact a significant toll on human life. They are among the leading causes of death in the United States, accounting for 99,000 deaths annually. HAIs affect patients, health care systems and society by increasing the cost of treating infections and causing greater disability and death. Since 2005, the number of states with laws requiring health care facilities to report HAIs has grown from six to 27. At the heart of public reporting is the belief that promoting transparency will improve quality of care, expand and improve infection prevention measures, reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with HAIs and cut costs. Research about outcomes from public reporting is in its infancy and more work will need to be done to assure that reporting meets its goals of higher quality, lower costs, and a more informed public. Setting up a reporting program is complex and time-consuming, and a successful program must have skilled staff and adequate, sustainable financing. This report examined reporting laws from nine states and gathered information about the challenges, successes and 'lessons learned' from states that have pioneered public reporting.
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 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Associated Infections in Hospitals written by Cynthia A. Bascetta and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health-care-associated infections (HAI) are infections that patients acquire while receiving treatment for other conditions. Normally treated with anti-microbial drugs, HAIs are a growing concern as exposure to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) becomes more common. Infections caused by MDROs, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, lead to longer hospital stays, higher treatment costs, and higher mortality. This report examines: (1) the design and implementation of state HAI public reporting systems; (2) the initiatives hospitals have undertaken to reduce MRSA infections; and (3) the experience of certain early-adopting hospitals in overcoming challenges to implement such initiatives. Illustrations.
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 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 To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Guidelines on Core Components of Infection Prevention and Control Programmes at the National and Acute Health Care Facility Level written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care-associated infections (HAI) are one of the most common adverse events in care delivery and a major public health problem with an impact on morbidity, mortality and quality of life. At any one time, up to 7% of patients in developed and 10% in developing countries will acquire at least one HAI. These infections also present a significant economic burden at the societal level. However, a large percentage are preventable through effective infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. These new guidelines on the core components of IPC programmes at the national and facility level will enhance the capacity of Member States to develop and implement effective technical and behaviour modifying interventions. They form a key part of WHO strategies to prevent current and future threats from infectious diseases such as Ebola, strengthen health service resilience, help combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve the overall quality of health care delivery. They are also intended to support countries in the development of their own national protocols for IPC and AMR action plans and to support health care facilities as they develop or strengthen their own approaches to IPC. These are the first international evidence-based guidelines on the core components of IPC programmes. These new WHO guidelines are applicable for any country and suitable to local adaptations, and take account of the strength of available scientific evidence, the cost and resource implications, and patient values and preferences.
Download or read book Practical Healthcare Epidemiology written by Ebbing Lautenbach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, hands-on outline of best practices for infection prevention that directly improve patient outcomes across the healthcare continuum.
