Patient Survival Guide: 8 Simple Solutions to Prevent Hospital- and Healthcare-Associated Infections - Softcover

McGuckin, Maryanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936303310 ISBN 13: 9781936303311

Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.7 million patients developed healthcare acquired infections in 2010, resulting in over 100,000 deaths, adding extra days hospital stays, and costing our already broken health care system 35 to 50 billion dollars. Infections after surgery account for 20 per cent of these healthcare acquired infections; according to CDC statistics, every year over 8,000 patients die of these infections. We also know that if you get a surgical site infection, you are five times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital after you've been sent home. This book describes in vivid detail how your preparation and informed vigilance can significantly reduce the chances of harm and death to your loved one in a hospital. It provides specific, practical, and outside-the-box strategies for anticipating and preventing errors, with chapters devoted to each of the most common mistakes and mishaps. It provides various checklists for patients to use upon admission to healthcare facilities.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Maryanne McGuckin has over 35 years of experience as a faculty and staff member of University of Pennsylvania. Currently she is a Senior Scholar in Health Policy Department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. McGuckin's speciality is infection control and hospital epidemiology. She created the Partners in Your Care program, a hand hygiene program which combines monitoring and patient empowerment and is used in several hundred hospitals in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. McGuckin served on the 2002 Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) task force that developed Hand Hygiene Guidelines for Healthcare Workers, was a member of the World Health Organization task force that developed a global patient empowerment model.

Toni L. Goldfarb is a medical journalist whose writings have appeared in numerous professional and consumer publications

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, FCCM is a critical care specialist at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936303310
• ISBN 13: 9781936303311
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208