Articles Tagged With: hospitals
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CMS Finalizes Drug Stewardship Regulation for Hospitals
In a long-anticipated action, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently finalized its 2016 rule requiring antibiotic stewardship programs in hospitals.
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Financial Navigators Can Solve Complex Cases
For patients facing a stack of complex hospital bills, there is a new kind of expert ready to help.
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Many Continue Asking Age-Old Question: ‘Why Do Hospitals Charge So Much?’
A growing number of states are enacting laws to control the cost of healthcare, including services rendered at hospitals.
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Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Mucorales Bite
Mucorales were found to commonly contaminate linen delivered to 15 transplant and cancer centers in the United States.
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Healthcare-associated Infections — Better, But Not There Yet
One-day prevalence studies demonstrated that there has been a 16% reduction in the risk of healthcare-associated infections from 2011 to 2015.
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How Many Personnel Are Required for Antimicrobial Stewardship? More Than You Have at Your Hospital
A work group in the Veterans Administration determined that the necessary staffing of antimicrobial stewardship programs dealing with inpatients (including long-term care) is 1.0 clinical pharmacy specialist with infectious disease knowledge and 0.25 physician (preferably trained in infectious disease) per 100 occupied beds. Needs for outpatient stewardship, which is now mandated, were not included in the assessment.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Sepsis Survival Affected by Drug Shortage;
A Rare Cause of Eosinophilic Meningoencephalitis;
Look, Ma! I Hooked My Thumb
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Laborists: How Will It Affect Care?
A recent study has shown a decrease in rates of induction, cesarean section, and preterm birth in hospitals after instituting a laborist model, compared with matched-control hospitals using the traditional model.
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Anesthesiology Departments on Average Charge More Than 20 Times Their Costs
Hospitals on average charged more than 20 times their own costs in 2013 in their anesthesiology departments, as well as their CT scan departments, which suggests that hospitals strategically use chargemaster markups to maximize revenue, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University.
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One-third of Patients Injured in Rehab Hospitals
Almost a third of patients in rehab hospitals suffer a medication error or some other type of preventable harm during their stay, according to a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services.