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Asking Your Healthcare Provider the Hard Questions

This blog is a part of a series that CDC launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Read the blog below, authored by Evelyn McKnight, to learn more about preventing unsafe injection practices. When I was diagnosed with Read More >

December 14, 2022 by Evelyn V. McKnight, AUD4 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Injection Safety, Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Infection Control and Prevention, Injection Safety

Seeing The Potential Harm of Antibiotic Overuse Clearly

This blog is a part of a series that CDC launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Read the blog below, authored by Christian John Lillis, to learn more about the potential harms of antibiotic overuse. The widespread Read More >

November 16, 2022 by Christian John Lillis2 Comments

Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Infection Control and Prevention

From Unaware and Unprepared to Safe Healthcare Advocates

Mosses meeting with former CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden.

This blog is a part of a series that CDC launched to highlight the importance of patient safety by providing educational information and simple ways to help people stay informed on public safety topics. Read the blog below, authored by Nile’s Project founders Carole and Ty Moss, to learn more about the importance of preventing Read More >

October 25, 2022 by Carole and Ty Moss7 Comments

Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Infection Control and Prevention, patient stories and patient safety, Sepsis

CDC Launches Blog Series on Patient Safety

Denise Cardo, MD, Former Director (2003-2023), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Kerri Moran Associate Director for Partnerships, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patient Read More >

October 18, 2022 by Blog Administrator1 Comment

Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Infection Control and Prevention, patient stories and patient safety

Clean Hands May Have Saved My Son’s Life

Describe what the image is intended to communicate—not what it looks like

As both a mom and preschool teacher, I have said “wash your hands” more times than I can imagine. Before my newborn son died in a hospital, I never imagined I needed to say it to a doctor. But if all healthcare personnel always used proper hand hygiene in my son’s care, sepsis may not Read More >

May 5, 2022 by Mary Ellen Mannix4 Comments

Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Hand Hygiene, Infection Control and Prevention, Sepsis

Category: Patient Stories and Patient Safety

Asking Your Healthcare Provider the Hard Questions

Seeing The Potential Harm of Antibiotic Overuse Clearly

From Unaware and Unprepared to Safe Healthcare Advocates

CDC Launches Blog Series on Patient Safety

Clean Hands May Have Saved My Son’s Life