Critical Care

50 of 51 health care facilities surveyed lacking in some or all of the five components of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene strategy

Each 10 µg/m³ increase in short-term, long-term average exposure to PM₁, PM_2.5, PM₁₀ linked to increased risk for in-hospital fatality

Experience of mistreatment or discrimination by patients, families, visitors independently linked with higher odds of burnout

In 2019, 2.0 and 3.6 percent of deaths in children aged 0 to 60 months and 28 days to 6 months, respectively, attributable to RSV infection

Risk varies considerably across 26 examined cardiovascular conditions

Female trauma patients had longer stay in ED, longer time in pretriage, increased likelihood of discharge to nursing or long-term care facilities

Twenty-eight percent of trials used historical, external, or other control; nearly half used surrogate measure as a primary end point

Higher risk seen for patients who were male, had multiple comorbidities and more previous emergency department visits

Persistent viral shedding associated with in-hospital delirium and increased six-month mortality

Significant but weaker associations with selected adverse outcomes seen for preexisting hypertension, diabetes, and ischemic heart disease