Annually, approximately 2 million patients suffer with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)
in the USA, and nearly 90,000 are estimated to die. The overall direct cost of HAIs to …

Objectives “Failure to rescue”(FTR) is the failure to prevent a death resulting from a
complication of medical care or from a complication of underlying illness or surgery. There is …

Predictive analytics is increasingly used to guide decision making in many applications.
However, in practice, we often have limited data on the true predictive task of interest and …

Safety in healthcare is a constantly moving target. As standards improve and concern for
safety grows, we come to regard an increasing number of events as patient safety issues. In …

Objectives: Hospital readmission is common after sepsis, yet the relationship between the
index admission and readmission remains poorly understood. We sought to examine the …

Repositioning patients regularly to prevent pressure ulcers and reduce interface pressures
is the standard of care, yet prior work has found that standard repositioning does not relieve …

Objective The primary objective of this study was to estimate the occurrence and costs of
medical errors from the hospital perspective. Methods Methods from a recent actuarial study …

Objective To evaluate the association between weekend admission to hospital and 11
hospital acquired conditions recently considered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …

Abstract Objective Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common type of hospital-
acquired infection, and most are associated with indwelling urinary catheters, that is …

Background This is the first nationwide study to evaluate the factors associated with
developing hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage …