Testimonial: OptionCare Health – Streamlining USP compliance across its facilities

These best practices address how to expand virtual care models to enhance patient-centered care and thereby improve the patient experience, quality and health outcomes.

C. difficile infections (CDI) are a challenge for hospitals; impacting patient and financial outcomes. AI technology can help pharmacists identify at-risk patients sooner to improve prevention and treatment.

The NIOSH list was created in 2004 with an intent to prevent occupational exposure to hazardous drugs in healthcare workers. Since its inception, it has been revised to keep up to date with drug development and evolution, and it is undergoing its most recent update in 2020.

For decades infection preventionists have focused on prevention, identification, and reporting of ventilator associated pneumonias (VAPs). While there has been a strong focus in studies, prevention, early detection, and analyses of VAPs, non-ventilator health care-associated pneumonias (NV-HAPs) have received much less attention.