A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology examined the impact of universal contact precautions on multidrug-resistant organism rates in intensive care units. They examined data ...

A lot of health information seems like a secret code only doctors understand. Wouldn't it be great if we could all comprehend what they were telling us? To address the gap between what healthcare ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio The prevalence of multidrug-resistant ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free health literacy toolkit to help primary care practices implement universal health literacy precautions. AHRQ commissioned the University of ...

Universal precautions are work practices designed to protect health care workers from occupational exposure to HIV and other bloodborne pathogens. However, despite aggressive dissemination efforts by ...

Objective: To test whether healthcare workers' knowledge of and compliance with the basic principle of the Universal Precautions policy (i.e., that all patients should be treated equally regarding ...

Reviewing precautions for blood and body fluids will help protect both healthcare workers and the public. In addition to serving as dean of the Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing at Wagner College ...

Low health literacy is a growing concern in the U.S. as medical-treatment decisions become more complex, chronic diseases more prevalent and doctors' face time with patients more limited, today's ...