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Sep 23 2011

2011 Potpourri XXXVII

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Another wonderful collection of health care research summaries, including a GAO report on likely effects of the MLR rule, physician work intensity, reducing hospital-acquired infections, discharge followup and hospital readmissions,…

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Jun 22 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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The number of septicemia and sepsis hospitalizations more than doubled between 2000 and 2008

Jun 07 2011

Orlando Sentinel

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The federal government released the data based on how often Medicare patients left hospitals with infections or other problems related to their stays

Jun 02 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Wireless phones, an increasingly common presence in hospitals, are seen as a perilous health risk by researchers who say the number of dangerous multi-drug resistant organisms

Jun 01 2011

NPR.org

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In the coming years, though, as the federal health law continues to take effect, the noose will tighten even more. Starting in 2012, Medicare will reduce payments to hospitals with poor infection rates in their intensive care units.

Apr 14 2011

New York Times

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Taken together, the studies are likely to stoke a raging debate among infection control specialists about the wisdom of universal testing

Apr 07 2011

Bloomberg

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Hospitals and U.S. regulators fail to record at least 90 percent of patient injuries, infections and other safety issues, a study found.

Jan 12 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospitals with multi-bed intensive care units are well advised to convert to single bed private rooms with their own sinks – a study that found such a transition resulted in a 54% decline in rates for three types of hospital-acquired bacterial infections.

Sep 16 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois and medical device maker CareFusion have formed the 23-hospital Illinois Hospital Quality Initiative (IHQI)

Aug 27 2010

AHRQ

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AHRQ: Adult Hospitals Stays with Infections Due to Medical Care, 2007

Aug 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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There’s bad news and good news about hospital-acquired infection (HAI) trends in the U.S.

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