Hospice and Palliative Care News

ORLANDO — Business intelligence software helped improve hand hygiene compliance by making data available and easily accessible in real time, researchers shared at the APIC 2023 meeting.

SEATTLE — Antibiotic use in long-term care facilities declined significantly over the course of almost a decade, although there was an uptick in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found.

Meaningful end-of-life care efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic included maintaining relationships with isolated patients, connecting patients to families and creating humanistic episodes, according to study results published in CHEST.

Shortcomings in hospital linen reprocessing, delivery and intake were identified as a potential route of contamination in a health care-associated mucormycosis outbreak reported in Arkansas.

Cannabis use during cancer treatment can result in a considerable out-of-pocket cost burden, according to study results presented at ASCO Quality Care Symposium.

Nearly 6% of children who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after seeking care at an emergency department reported lasting effects from their infection, according to the results of a large study of pediatric long COVID published Friday.

Telemedicine offers the promise of increased efficiency during patient care, but in-person evaluations and relationships are too valuable to completely disregard, according to a debate session at EULAR 2022 Congress.

The AAP published guidelines for pediatric end-of-life care, including recommendations for communicating with families and for planning advance care.

Although COVID-19 remained a popular topic among Healio Primary Care readers in 2021, other stories that discussed diabetes screening and physician suicide also generated significant attention.

As of Dec. 1, the FDA had approved 46 novel drugs this year, one fewer than it had approved by the same date in 2020.