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NewsHospitals slash sepsis rates with nursing-focused strategies
In what could be a template for other hospitals to follow, nine acute care facilities in the Bay Area teamed to dramatically reduce their sepsis mortality rates, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Read more...
Partnership takes aim at sepsis control
Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Don Berwick, MD, joined with leaders of major hospitals, employers, Read more...
Patients want better infection prevention at hospitals
Many Americans want hospitals to do a better job of protecting their patients from potentially deadly infections, concludes a new survey by the Partnership for Quality Care and Kaiser Permanente. Read more...
Hospitals report more occurrences of deadly KPC bacteria
Bacteria that produces Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)--a deadly infection that can cause pneumonia, sepsis and urinary tract infections--has been found more frequently among hospital Read more...
Nurse sues hospital after losing fingers, legs to infection
With increasing numbers of patients presenting to the ED, it seems inevitable that staff could miss something critical. Such was the case with Jean Law, a nurse at Florida's Baptist Medical Center Read more...
Better sepsis screening needed in ICUs
Hospitals are not adequately screening for sepsis in the ICU. Sepsis, or surgical infection, kills 10 times more than heart attack and blood clots during surgery, according to new research published Read more...
Pneumonia, sepsis linked to 48,000 HAI-deaths annually
Better infection control practices could help hospitals save up to 48,000 lives and as much as $8.1 billion each year in extra costs, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Read more...
Canadian mortality rates for sepsis very high
Canadian mortality rates for sepsis are at an alarming level, and are three times as high for heart attack patients, according to health officials there. More than 30 percent of the 30,500 patients Read more...
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