Global warming is just one of the many facets of climatic change. The word "global warming" commonly refers to the measured increase in global average temperature in terms of intensity...
Healthcare today has moved well beyond the walls of hospitals; outpatient infusion centers, ambulatory surgical centers and other professional facilities deliver care more complicated than was available in the best…hospitals decades ago. Likewise, the term hospital-acquired infection (or "nosocomial infections") has yielded to the more general term "healthcare-associated infections" (HAI).
In the U.S., an infection develops in about 1 in 31 hospitalized patients, an estimated 1.2 million patients per year. Infections acquired during home care or from outpatient visits…
Essentially, the health of a population is largely determined by what we have come to call the social determinants of health—that is, socioeconomic status, the environment, individual behavior, rather than…the actual delivery of healthcare services. The unequal distribution of morbidity, mortality and quality of life also determine population health. And then there are the laws of the society that help define and sculpt the population’s health, such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and the new kid on…
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For many centuries, skilled work was done by craftsmen who were responsible for inspecting their products and ensuring good quality for their customers. Starting in the late 19th century, people such as Frederick Taylor, an American engineer, saw…
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Staphylococcus aureus is a virulent organism that is the causative agent of a wide range of clinical disease, including skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI). Traditionally, there were two…categories into which these infections fell: infections acquired in the community and those acquired in the health care setting. In this context, organisms causing community-acquired infections were typically susceptible to traditional antibiotics of choice, namely anti-staphylococcal penicillins, of which methicillin is the parent drug. These organisms are referred…
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Daniel Scheurich, M.D., and Keith Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D.
Healthcare today has moved well beyond the walls of hospitals; outpatient infusion centers, ambulatory surgical centers and other professional facilities deliver care more complicated than was available in the best…hospitals decades ago. Likewise, the term hospital-acquired infection (or "nosocomial infections") has yielded to the more general term "healthcare-associated infections" (HAI).
In the U.S., an infection develops in about 1 in 20 hospitalized patients, an estimated 1.7 million patients per year. Infections acquired during home care or from outpatient…
