According to a recent study, 6 out of 10 healthcare providers' hospital clothing harbors bacteria that are prolific in hospitals.
Nursing and physician attire as possible source of nosocomial infections.
There is approximately a three-fold increase in mortality for high-risk births at less-specialized hospitals than at level III hospitals. Level III hospitals generally have higher-level perinatal care and abide by perinatal regionalization guidelines.
Primary source: Journal of the American Medical Association
Source reference:
Perinatal Regionalization for Very Low-Birth-Weight and Very Preterm Infants
According to ACOG, the prevention of surgical errors is the shared responsibility of the healthcare team and should involve educating the patient. ACOG's new stance is aligned with the current trend in healthcare to enhance patient safety and enable patients so that they can make appropriate decisions and understand the options that may be available.
According to CNN, a Missouri VA hospital possibly exposed more than 1,800 veterans to viruses such as hepatitis and HIV. More than 1,800 letters were mailed out to veterans alerting them to the possibility that they could contract hepatitis B, C, or HIV if they visited the hospital for dental work.
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New York Times reported that the initial report of unread echocardiograms at the Harlem Hospital Center is worse than initially reported. Apparently the unread reports go back to 2005, not 2007. Additionally, they believe that the number of unread reports in close to 5,000, not 4,000.
New York's Health commissioner has ordered a formal investigation into the city's public hospitals after hospital officials recently admitted that thousands of cardiac test results, many of which were abnormal, were never viewed by physicians. According to the officials, this has been an ongoing problem since 2007 because they allow technicians to read the test results.
New York Times (5/27, A24, Hartocollis)
Federal Law requires hospitals to report disciplined physicians to the National Practioner Data Bank. Unfortunately, for nearly twenty years many hospitals have failed to comply with this law. The Data Bank was developed to protect the public from incompetent physicians who move to other hospitals or states and fail to disclose their disciplinary history. Hospitals access the Data Bank before hiring a physician to confirm their history and disciplinary history, allowing them to access one centralized database as opposed to contacting each state's medical board. According to Public Citizen 49 percent of hospitals failed to report any physician disciplinary actions to the Data Bank from 1990 through 2007.
Despite law, many U.S. hospitals aren't reporting disciplinary action to a national database
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