The following are the 10 most-read articles from Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality for the week of Sept. 5, starting with the most popular.
1. How much hand sanitizer is enough?
2. Theft by ER nurse results in disbursement of potentially contaminated drugs at Lee Memorial
3. Should readmission rates be used to measure hospital quality? New study casts doubts
4. Which states have the most Zika cases?
5. Communicating a low star rating: A playbook for 1-star hospitals
6. FDA bans triclosan from antibacterial soap: 6 things to know
7. When developing quality and safety policies, nurse input may be overlooked
8. Brain-eating amoeba kills New York state teenager
9. Zika case count nears 3,000 in the states; tops 14,000 in US territories
10. Hospitals with high patient experience star ratings don’t have better outcomes, new analysis finds
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