Leapfrog's Top Hospitals list, a guide to building a superbug playbook and a year in review of infection control happenings piqued the interest of infection control and clinical quality readers last week.
The following are the 10 most-read infection control and clinical quality articles from Becker's Hospital Review for the week of Nov. 30, starting with the most popular.
1. The Leapfrog Group names 2015 Top Hospitals: 5 things to know
2. Infection control in the US: 2015 year in review
3. Superbug playbook: How to build an antibiotic stewardship program that works
4. MAP releases annual list of 130 potential Medicare quality measures
5. Are hospitals lowering readmissions or just putting more patients under observation?
6. Patient safety tool: APIC fliers show proper use of procedure masks, N95 respirators
7. 10 most common patient complaints, grievances with hospitals
8. Trading in pens and paper for a 21st century hand hygiene monitoring system
9. Rigid containers vs. wrapped instrument trays: Which offers better protection from bacteria?
10. HHS: 87k lives and $20B saved through patient safety efforts