Residents of long-term care facilities are at high risk for acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms [1–5]. These individuals are often admitted to acute-care hospitals, promoting the propagation of multidrugresistant (and other) infections to other patients. Thus, hospital transfers represent an important potential point of intervention, where informed decisions can be made to control the sprea...

BACKGROUND The client experience is an important outcome in the evaluation and development of perinatal healthcare. But because clients meet different professionals, measuring such experiences poses a challenge. This is especially the case in the Netherlands, where pregnant women are often transferred between professionals due to the nation's approach to risk selection. This paper explores ques...

BACKGROUND Some preventable deaths in hospitalized patients are due to unrecognized deterioration. There are no publications of studies that have instituted routine patient monitoring postoperatively and analyzed impact on patient outcomes. METHODS The authors implemented a patient surveillance system based on pulse oximetry with nursing notification of violation of alarm limits via wireless ...