OBJECTIVES To assess current practices of different healthcare providers for treating extensively drug-resistant (XDR)  Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) infections  in tertiary-care centers in Saudi Arabia.  METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed in  tertiary-care centers of Saudi Arabia between March and June 2014. A questionnaire consisting of 3 parts (respondent characteristics; case...

The United States is facing one of the largest healthcare building booms in the country’s history (Ulrich, Quan, Zimring, Joseph, & Choudhary, 2004). In the past five years, the hospital industry has spent almost $100 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars on new facilities, an increase of 47% from the previous five years (USA Today, 2006). Reasons for the construction boom are many: the need to...

Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Rockville, Maryland, USA U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease ...

Event Surveillance Using Electronic Health Record Data, Tennessee, 2012 Duc Nguyen, MD; Vlad Ladik; Ruth Belflower RN, MPH; Meredith Kanago, MSPH; Marion A. Kainer, MBBS, MPH; Nicola Thompson; Chris Lovell; Priti Patel; Matthew Wise, PhD; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Dialysis Clinic, Inc., Nashville, TN; Centers for Disease C...

Background: New emerging technologies enable healthcare centers to enhance their information technology (IT) infrastructure, which offers an opportunity provide adequate services patients. In Saudi Arabia, the government has initiated artificial intelligence-based increase productivity in organizations. However, recent studies demand innovative approaches for quality...