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Summit Medical Group announced that Joseph T. Barmakian, MD, has earned the 2012 Overlook Medical Center/Atlantic Health System Physician Excellence Award for Orthopedics.

The Pain Center of Arizona in Phoenix announced that it has been awarded the Phoenix Award in the pain management category by the U.S. Commerce Association.

BackgroundHealthcare-associated infections are among the leading causes of preventable prolonged hospital stay and death in the United States. HAIs affect approximately 1.7 million patients, leading to approximately 99,000 deaths and creating $26 billion to $33 billion in excess healthcare costs…

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses offers a free severe sepsis audit tool to determine healthcare providers' compliance with prompt recognition and resuscitation of patients with severe sepsis.

Hand hygiene compliance improvement reduced the acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a children's hospital and saved costs, according to a study in American Journal of Infection Control.

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, Greg Zoch will give a presentation titled "The 5 Most Common Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them."

Full contact precautions, including the use of cover gowns, may not be more effective in preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission than just wearing gloves, according to a study in American Journal of Infection Control.

New research has found that the use of bone morphogenic proteins in anterior and posterior lumbar fusions was linked with shorter hospital stays, lower infection rates and greater in-hospital costs, according to Healio.

Fifty-six percent of medical students reported they would not speak up if they witnessed a possible adverse event, according to a study in the Academic Medicine.

While performance measures are key to improving quality in healthcare, leaders must be aware of and address the measures' weaknesses, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded report from the Urban Institute, "Achieving the Potential of Health Care Performance Measures:…