New surveyor guidelines spell out what Medicare expects from hospital infection control programs to help fight current threats like multidrug-resistant organisms, disease outbreaks like flu or SARS, and bioterrorism. The hospital conditions of participation for infection control have not changed. The revised guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
What should our surgical infection rate be? The conventional way to answer is to benchmark your hospital's rates with data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But the new answer is likely to be-zero. It's been thought that a certain number of hospital-acquired infections are to be…