During the spring of 1867, Joseph Lister published a series of articles in The Lancet outlining medical sterilization protocols that became the foundation of contemporary antiseptic surgical practice. Many doctors resisted Lister’s findings at first,.
The federal government has eased its annual punishments for hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates in an acknowledgment of the upheaval the covid-19 pandemic has caused, resulting in the lightest penalties since 2014.
Federal officials said they are penalizing 2,273 hospitals, the fewest since September 2014 to compensate for the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Federal officials said they are penalizing 2273 hospitals, the fewest since 2014. Driving the decline was a change in the formula to compensate for the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rates of some hospital-acquired infections are up since the pandemic, but in other cases, hospitals have reported improvements in quality scores. How can this experience be harnessed in improving the quality and safety of hospital care?