Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Doctors and medical students in India should stop wearing white coats
Doctors and medical students in India should stop wearing white coats, argues a doctor in The BMJ this week.
Jul 21, 2015
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News tagged with hospital acquired infections
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Inexpensive infection control measures could save thousands of lives, billions of dollars
At any given time, one of every 20 hospital patients has a hospital-acquired infection, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Sep 8, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Common hospital soap effective in preventing hospital-acquired infections
Holding hope for a relatively inexpensive way to improve care and prevent the spread of deadly hospital-acquired infections, a new study reports that bathing patients in a common hospital soap, called chlorhexidine, was equally ...
May 14, 2015
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Surgery
Spinal surgeries more successful than reflected in public reported statistics: UCSF
The odds that someone undergoing spinal surgery at a particular hospital will have to be readmitted to the same hospital within 30 days is an important measure of the quality of care patients receive. That's because these ...
Apr 17, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Genome mapping may stop superbug deaths
Genome mapping could prove key in preventing superbugs in hospitals, an Australian researcher said Friday, urging its use to prevent countless deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections.
Nov 30, 2012
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Medical research
Scientists develop compound to fight MRSA
Microbiologists and chemists at the University of South Florida have developed and patented a synthetic compound that has shown antibiotic action against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, which ...
Jan 29, 2015
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Health
Eyes and a citrus smell could help cut hospital infections
A picture of a man's intense staring eyes and a clean citrusy smell have been found to substantially improve hand-washing and so cut the risk of hospital infections, according to a new study.
Dec 9, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Computational methods reveal how hospital-acquired bacteria spread
Scientists at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research have developed novel computational methods that have yielded essential knowledge of how hospital-acquired bacteria spread and ...
Jan 16, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Patients underestimate risk of deep vein thrombosis, say researchers
(Medical Xpress)—Many people going into hospital have concerns about contracting the hospital acquired infection MRSA, yet the risk of acquiring - and dying from – hospital acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) is much ...
Sep 3, 2012
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Health
Little progress in participation of early-career registered nurses in hospital quality improvement activities
Nurses are the largest group of health care providers in the U.S., and health care leaders and experts agree that engaging registered nurses (RNs) in quality improvement (QI) efforts is essential to improving our health care ...
Jan 28, 2013
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