The following are the 10 most popular stories from Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality from the past month, starting with the most popular.
1. Ice maker, sinks linked to UW Medical Center Legionnaires’ outbreak; 2 dead
2. Hospitals with high patient experience star ratings don’t have better outcomes, new analysis finds
3. Every state but 1 lowered hospital readmissions since 2010, CMS data shows
4. VA hospitals stop reporting quality data to Hospital Compare: 4 things to know
5. UW Medical Center’s Legionnaires’ outbreak continues — 5th patient infected
6. How much hand sanitizer is enough?
7. Theft by ER nurse causes disbursement of potentially contaminated drugs at Lee Memorial
8. All 9 heater-cooler devices at UW Medical Center test positive for Legionella: 6 things to know
9. 3 Penn Medicine heart patients infected by heater-cooler devices, hundreds to be notified
