There's an interesting
letter in the latest Clinical Infectious Diseases from Dan Morgan and Kathy Kirkland on contact precautions. They surveyed 34 infectious diseases physicians at a meet-the-professor session at the 2011 Infectious Diseases Society of America Meeting. Interestingly, only 38% believed that contact precautions prevent transmission of multidrug resistant organisms, and 74% felt that contact precautions may actually harm patients. The sample size of the survey was small and perhaps there's bias in that the participants had selected to attend a session on contact precautions, but the findings are intriguing. I suspect that some day in the future people will find photographs of healthcare workers wrapped in plastic as weird as we now find the plague doctor outfit.
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Those MDs are lying their asses off. HIAs mean big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for hospitals. HIA's kill at least 100K people each year. Statistically you are safer in a combat zone.
ReplyDelete"HIA's kill at least 100K people each year. Statistically you are safer in a combat zone." This is the scariest truth to me. People go to these facilities to get better, not worse.
DeleteFrom what I know, there is no economic incentive for HAIs. HAIs almost uniformly have a negative economic impact for hospitals. I'm also not sure MDs have any incentive in this game either; if you have data to suggest that MDs benefit from HAIs, please share it. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis. Don't readmission due to HAIs hurt Hospitals? Both Financially and with Medicaid.
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