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Healthcare-associated infections, the panel

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The panel at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual meeting exploring mandatory reporting of HAIs was very successful (she, the moderator, says modestly). Speakers were: Chesley Richards, MD, deputy director of the CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Betsy McCaughey, PhD, founder and chair of RID, the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths Carmela Coyle, senior vice president [...]

Hospital MRSA – should healthcare institutions be forced to report it?

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I’ll be moderating a panel exploring that contentious issue at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual meeting in March. On the panel: Carmela Coyle, senior vice president for policy, American Hospital Association Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D., CEO and chair, Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths Carole Moss, executive director, Nile’s Project Chesley Richards, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director, Division of Health [...]