Search results for "Health care-associated infections"
April 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/
May 2021
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
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July 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/
Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates: The wrong quality measure
Legislators, payers and quality-of-care advocates across the nation are considering requiring hospitals to report ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates as a way to benchmark quality of care and penalize poor performers.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2007/12/vap-qm.htm
15 Dec 2007
In the News
ACC/AHA Task Force updates STEMI and PCI guidelines .
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/itn.htm
15 Feb 2008
MKSAP primer: Health care-associated infections
Adapted from ACP's latest Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/mksap.htm
15 Apr 2008
Test yourself: Health care-associated infections
Health care-associated infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/04/test.htm
15 Apr 2008
In the News
Proxies' perceptions about dementia, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2010/01/itn.htm
15 Jan 2010
Technology helps to monitor hand hygiene
A new system at Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., reduced health care-associated infections by about 20%.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/07/success.htm
15 Jul 2011
CDC: Fewer HAIs reported in 2010 than expected
Fewer health care-associated infections (HAIs) were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2010 than had been predicted based on 2006-2008 data, a new report said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/02/3.htm
2 May 2012