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Infection Control
& Clinical Quality
July 2015 Vol. 2015 No. 4
FEATURES
1 100 Patient Safety Benchmarks | 2015
1 Beyond the Burning Platform: A Recipe for Continuous Quality Improvement
1 What Makes an 'Ideal' Chief Quality Officer?
Executive Briefing: Reducing Infections in the OR
9 How Improving Sterile Supply Management in the OR can Reduce Infections
and Readmissions
Quality Improvement
14 Are Patient Satisfaction Surveys Doing More Harm Than Good?
14 New Online Benchmarking Engine Allows Hospitals to Compare Themselves to
Peers
14 Quality Improvement Efforts Reduce Malpractice Claims, Researchers Find
15 Don't Wait for Chance: 5 Steps to Purposefully Make Innovative Ideas Work
15 'More Hands on Deck, More Often' may not Improve Quality of Care,
Study Suggests
16 Top 45 Hospitals Patients Would 'Definitely' Recommend
Infection Prevention & Control
17 Infection Prevention and Housekeeping: A Collaboration of Equals
18 Presurgical MRSA Screening Can Help Decrease SSIs, Study Finds
18 SSI Risk Factors: 3 Main Categories
18 As Temperatures Rise in the Summer, So Do Common SSIs
20 Physicians, Nurses Disagree on When to Test for C. diff: 11 Risk Factors
20 Where are C. diff Rates Highest in the US?
Hand Hygiene
23 Does Product Placement in the ED Influence Hand Hygiene Performance?
6 Study Findings
23 1 in 4 Hospitals Need to Improve Hand Hygiene Practices, Says Leapfrog:
5 Report Findings
24 Which States' Hospitals Have the Best, Worst Hand Hygiene Practices?
24 Gamification Yields 'Significant Improvement' in Nurse Hand Hygiene Compliance
24 Automated Training System Improves Hand Hygiene Technique, but Not
Compliance
26 9 Hospitals Named Regional Ebola, Other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers
Patient Safety Toolkit
29 11 Patient Safety Tools Published in 2015
29 UV Light Disinfection: Combat 4 Misconceptions With 1 Step
30 Hospital & Health System CMO, CNO and Chief Quality Officer Moves
30 Advertising Index
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