December 13, 2012
November 7, 2012
May 22, 2012
Admission for sepsis through the ED, when compared with direct admission to the hospital, appears to be associated with lower early and overall inpatient mortality. Results from a large national sample of hospitalizations with a principal diagnosis of sepsis showed that overall sepsis inpatient mortality was 17.1% for ED admissions, compared with a 19.7% rate for direct admissions.…
April 17, 2012
A multipronged hand hygiene program that includes a multimedia communications campaign, education, leadership engagement, environment modification, team performance measurement, and feedback appears to be associated with significant and sustained increases in hand hygiene practices among various types of healthcare professionals. Following implementation of the program and maintaining it consistently for 20 months, the Johns Hopkins University analysis reported a two-fold increase in overall hand hygiene compliance.…
April 10, 2012
March 13, 2012
Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition that strikes an estimated 750,000 people each year in the United States. Defined as the body’s reaction to infection (whether bacterial, viral, fungal, or parasitic), sepsis is the most common underlying cause of mortality in non-coronary ICUs.…
October 24, 2011
May 16, 2011
Women with long-term persistence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection appear to be generally more susceptible to other HPV infections, especially longer-lasting infections, than women who have these infections cleared, according to an international investigation. In a logistic regression model, women with long-term HPV persistence were more likely than women who cleared infections to have another newly-detected HPV infection detected when assessed at three or more office visits (odds ratio, 2.6).…
November 18, 2010
A lighting system appears to be able to kill hospital superbugs—including MRSA and C. Difficile—by decontaminating the air and exposed surfaces in a narrow spectrum of visible-light wavelengths, known as HINS-light.…
September 7, 2010
