Podcast 130: If you’re a clinician concerned about health costs, wash your hands — don’t just wring them

Health Affairs has a study in which a few simple, but rigorously followed patient-care procedures in a pediatric ICU dropped infection rates, mortality, lengths of hospital stay, and total costs. Sound too good to be true? Well, it wasn’t exactly easy, but the results were real and measurable. Listen in and see whether this could work for you and your institution.

Links:

• Health Affairs article (free abstract)
• Physician’s First Watch summary (free)
• Psychological Science study of motivations for clinicians’ hand washing (news release)

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