An Iowa health system's struggle with wrong-site surgeries, the cost burden of quality reporting and a mysterious bacterial blood infection outbreak captured the attention 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 March 7, starting with the most popular.
1. Time out: Health system in Iowa has 4 wrong-site surgeries in 40 days
2. Reporting quality measures is costly, not useful for physician practices, survey finds
3. Source of Wisconsin blood bacteria outbreak still unknown; CDC sends more investigators
4. Truven Health Analytics names 100 Top Hospitals: 5 takeaways
5. 44 hospitals with the best patient discharge information practices
6. Patients exposed to scabies at New Hampshire hospitals
7. Cleveland Clinic: First uterus transplant in US is unsuccessful
9. Bacterial bloodstream infection linked to 18 deaths in Wisconsin
10. Sutter hospital loses operating room backup power, cancels surgeries