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Antibiotic Use By Travelers May Add To Global Spread Of Superbugs

Staff Writer | Infection Control Today | January 22, 2015

Taking antibiotics for diarrhea may put travelers visiting developing parts of the world at higher risk for contracting superbugs and spreading these daunting drug-resistant bacteria to their home countries, according to a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online...

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Some U.S. Hospitals Weigh Withholding Care To Ebola Patients

Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley | Reuters | October 22, 2014

The Ebola crisis is forcing the American healthcare system to consider the previously unthinkable: withholding some medical interventions because they are too dangerous to doctors and nurses and unlikely to help a patient.  U.S. hospitals have over the years come under criticism for undertaking measures that prolong dying rather than improve patients' quality of life...

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Weill Cornell Study Finds Measuring Quality In EHR Era 'Challenging'

Mike Milliard | Government Health IT | January 16, 2013

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College spotlights the need for improving quality measurement from electronic health records. Read More »