Positive Patient Outcomes for Clients with SAB
According to Lopez-Cortes et al. (2013) bacteremia is closely related to the state of morbidity of a patient and the outcome that follows this state, which may lead to chronic illness or even death. In the article, “Impact of an Evidence-Based Bundle Intervention in the Quality-of-Care Management and Outcome of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia”, Lopez-Cortes et al. (2013) describes significant factors, like quality of care indicators (CQI), that have proven to be quantitative measures of crucial importance on prognosis and subsequent treatment of this disease. Correspondingly, a research article conducted by Holmes et al. (2011), “Antibiotic choice may not explain poorer outcomes in patients with staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and high vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentrations”, denotes the importance of analysis-based augmentation of the minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics when dealing with blood infections in order to acquire more favorable outcomes. Additionally, a patient case was selected to address and dissect two topics: 1) the medical care that the patient received and how can treatment be improved according to the evidenced based practice article selected and 2) how can treatment be improved with results from the research article selected.
Bacteremia is the infection of the blood with an agent that is foreign to the blood itself. Various alien agents may be able to infiltrate the previous sterile circulatory system, but only Staphylococcus aureus will be taken into consideration in this paper. According to Thwaites et al. (2011) infection of the blood with S. aureus is one of the most life threatening bacterial infections around the world; 12,500 cas...
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The patients should receive safe and appropriate care in return for payment equal to the level of care received (“What is Value-Based Care”, 2016). For providers, this means using affordable and proven treatments while also catering to the patient’s needs (“What is Value-Based Care”, 2016). Additionally, this model is built upon measurement which when relayed to the patient will inform them of the scope and cost of their care. Examples of measures that are tracked, provided by the article “What is Value-Based Care,” include: procedural complications, hospital-acquired infections, and readmissions; providers face penalties if these metrics are unacceptable (“What is Value-Based Care”,
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In the last decade, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics has increases. Even though, antibiotics are helpful, an excess amount of antibiotics can be dangerous. Quite often antibiotics are wrongly prescribed to cure viruses when they are meant to target bacteria. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that is prone to kill microorganisms, or bacteria. By examining the PBS documentary Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria and the article “U.S. government taps GlaxoSmithKline for New Antibiotics” by Ben Hirschler as well as a few other articles can help depict the problem that is of doctors prescribing antibiotics wrongly or excessively, which can led to becoming harmful to the body.
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