Bacterial Cross-Contamination and Patient's Charts IS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN BACTERIAL CROSS-CONTAMINATION AND PATIENTS' CHARTS? Is there any connection between bacterial cross-contamination and patients' charts? With recent interventions in Continue Reading...
Tissue Tracking and Patient Safety Tissue Tracking Systemic Tissue Tracking Deficiencies Remain a Serious Threat to Patient Safety Systemic Tissue Tracking Deficiencies Remain a Serious Threat to Patient Safety The Joint Commission established st Continue Reading...
These are questions dealing with attitude and are the most important questions when doing qualitative social science research to gauge relationships among events. In addition to construction questions about attitudes, it is important to have the que Continue Reading...
Oral Hygiene Methodology There is a significant amount of research that shows statistical correlation between oropharyngeal bacterial colonization and the presence bacteria responsible for ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP). Several interventions Continue Reading...
Looking more generally at how the spread of resistant bacteria has advanced over the last few years one study traces the historical precedence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. This work offers a plethora of good information about the se Continue Reading...
This is important because the cost of hospital acquired infections run high. The cost to care for a patient with a hospital acquired infection is almost three times the amount to care for a patient without a hospital acquired infection (Hassan et al Continue Reading...
This may eventually lead to end organ failure and death. MRSA / S.aureus are not often found to be the etiology of lung infection except in hospitalized patients who reside in the Intensive Care Units. Often the victim requires ventilation, meaning Continue Reading...
Wound Care Chronic wounds represent a devastating health care problem with significant clinical, physical and social implications. Evidence suggests that consistent, meticulous and skilled care provides the primary means by which successful wound ca Continue Reading...
