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Wednesday, December 15, 2021
 

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State Medical Boards Report 67% Hike in COVID-19 Misinformation Complaints
The spreading of misinformation about COVID-19, which has included false or misleading information from some physicians, has been a troubling aspect of the coronavirus pandemic. The misinformation has included erroneous recommendations related to treatments and vaccination.
 

News & Analysis

Emergency Department Agitation Code Response Team Reduces Use of Physical Restraints
The recent journal article, which was published by Annals of Emergency Medicine, describes the design and implementation of an agitation code response team at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut.
Only 11% of Nurses Plan to Pursue Leadership Roles as a Career Path
The survey was conducted by Trusted in October 2021 with a sample of 3,357 nurse respondents, of whom 54% currently work as travel nurses, 37% as staff nurses, and 9% in per-diem or other types of nursing roles.
IHI Leaders Expect Significant Progress on Health Equity in 2022
Yesterday during a press briefing, IHI President and CEO Kedar Mate, MD, and IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Donald Berwick MD, MPP, discussed health equity trends for 2022. Next year, there likely will be a movement toward outcome-based measurement for health equity, Mate said.
PSQH: The Podcast

PSQH: The Podcast Episode 42 – The Evolution of Healthcare Quality

On episode 42 of PSQH: The Podcast, Rachel Biblow, senior vice president and partner for strategic integration and transformation at Press Ganey and Dr. Tejal Gandhi, Press Ganey’s chief safety and transformation officer, talk about the evolution of healthcare quality over the last 20 years.
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'Perfect Storm' Increased Healthcare-Associated Infections During Pandemic

The research article, which was published by Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, examined national- and state-level standardized infection ratios (SIR) for each quarter in 2020 compared to each quarter in 2019. SIRs were determined for each HAI by dividing the number of reported infections by the number of predicted infections, calculated using 2015 national baseline data.
 

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