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• How Infection Prevention Came to Dominate the Patient Safety Movement

  The Joint Commission just released its 2009 National Patient Safety Goals, and – no surprise – they focus on infection prevention. While this seems natural today, it wasn’t always so. In fact, the conflation of infection control and patient safety is Read More... Posted Sun, Jun 22 2008 1:10 AM by Bob Wachter | 2 Comments Filed under: Hospital Care, Transparency and Reporting, Quality Measurement, Patient Safety/Medical Errors, Nurses/Nursing, Health Policy

• The Weekly Roundup…

  Stuff this week that caught my eye: Does medical tourism harm the natives? Are all those CT scans destroying more than our budgets? Are nocturnalists at risk for more than decubs? Will Medicare need to cut hospital payments to fuel P4P? Answers: yes, Read More... Posted Fri, Nov 30 2007 9:45 PM by Bob Wachter | 0 Comments Filed under: Hospital Care, Pay-for-performance, Transparency and Reporting, Quality Measurement, Hospitalists/Hospital Medicine, Diagnosis/Clinical Reasoning, Information Technology, Ambulatory/Primary Care, Nurses/Nursing, Health Policy, Outsourcing/Medical Tourism