A pain clinic in New Jersey that infected dozens of patients, the hospitals with the cleanest patient rooms and quality measures recommended for removal from federal programs captured the attention of readers last week.
The following are the 10 most-read articles from Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality for the week of March 20, beginning with the most popular.
1. New Jersey pain clinic closes after 30+ patients infected
2. 59 hospitals with the cleanest patient rooms, as reported by patients
3. 19 quality improvement and patient safety toolkits
4. Hospital patient mortality drops during Joint Commission surveys, study finds
5. Joint Commission: 10 most common sentinel events of 2016
6. 51 quality measures should be removed from federal programs, MAP says
7. New Jersey pain clinic reopens after infecting 37 patients
8. Sepsis is a 'ninja disease', researchers say
9. Redesigned Olympus scopes linked to superbug outbreak: 7 things to know
10. CHG baths can help reduce MRSA by up to 55 percent