Wall Street Journal reports how health care providers are finding that when it comes to safety issues like infections, collaboration trumps completion. – C. Difficile
A few years ago, in Rochester, NY, the main hospitals in the city, like many across the country, were struggling with rising rates of illness caused by a particularly ferocious bacterium: Clostridium difficile. In an effort to reduce the risk of infection to its patients, four hospitals joined forces to beat back the debilitating bug, forming a C. difficile prevention collaborative. The Wall Street Journal article describes the program and how these four hospitals took on the bacterium.
Read the full article, here.
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