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U-M researchers question whether patient safety surveys actually measure how well a hospital is keeping patients safe. Learn more on patient safety culture.
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Bladder Bundle combines protocols, checklists, and training to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in hospitals. See the results of the study.
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Many health care professionals still aren't washing their hands despite the known risk of infections. See what hospitals are doing to improve hand sanitization.
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Check out these tips for tick prevention. Learn the differences between wood and deer ticks and the diseases they carry. Also, tick bite treatments.
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University of Michigan researchers find late deaths after sepsis are not tied age, socio-demographic, or pre-sepsis health. Find out the role hospitals play.
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A recent study found that one in four seniors had superbugs on their hands after leaving the hospital. The solution: hand washing. Learn more about the study.
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Parents who delay or skip childhood vaccinations even when kids have no medical reasons are contributing to U.S. outbreaks of measles and whooping cough.
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Hepatitis C treatments are highly effective early in the course of the disease. The success rate is lower when diagnosis occurs in the late stages of cirrhosis.