The Perfect Storm: Emerging Trends and Pathogens in Healthcare
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2016
Publication Title
Clinical Laboratory Science
DOI
10.29074/ascls.29.1.32
ISSN
1945-3574
Abstract
In 1999, the article To Err is Human brought healthcare-associated infections (HAI) to the nation’s attention. However, the risk posed by healthcare facilities to those who went there for healing had not developed overnight. Decades of changing demography, microbial evolution, and –ironically-- healthcare advancements had resulted in this perfect storm. Since the change in paradigm in healthcare that nosocomial or healthcare-associated infections are a natural consequence of treatment to a practice of surveillance and prevention, hospital acquired infections are no longer considered consequences of inpatient treatment. Prevention of healthcare-associated infections includes protecting patients, healthcare workers, visitors, volunteers and health science students. This paper aims to describe the contributory roles of affected populations with their attendant, diverse healthcare sites and healthcare workers, and emerging pathogens.
Recommended Citation
Rohde, Rodney E., Julie Reagan, Marilyn Felkner, Amber Hogan Mitchell, Pat Tille.
2016.
"The Perfect Storm: Emerging Trends and Pathogens in Healthcare."
Clinical Laboratory Science, 29 (1): 32-38.
doi: 10.29074/ascls.29.1.32
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/health-policy-facpubs/133
