The following are the 10 most-read articles from Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality for the week of Oct. 24, starting with the most popular.
1. CMS puts Allina hospital in ‘immediate jeopardy’ for drug error during nurses’ strike
2. CMS updates overall star ratings: What’s changed?
3. Are hospital sinks doing more harm than good?
4. Nurses’ scrubs likely aid spread of germs to patients, study finds
5. Dr. Peter Pronovost: ‘Patients deserve quality measures that are more science, less sausage-making’
6. Hospital quality measures need work: Mass General experts weigh in
7. Physicians prescribe wrong antibiotic half of the time
8. FDA: Hospitals underreport device-related injuries and deaths
9. Wrong-patient surgery risks Massachusetts hospital’s Medicare funding
10. Syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia rates reach record high in US
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