Denise Cardo, MD
Director, Division of Healthcare High quality Promotion
Nationwide Heart for Rising and Zoonotic Infectious Ailments
on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention
Kerri Moran
Affiliate Director for Partnerships, Division of Healthcare High quality Promotion
Nationwide Heart for Rising and Zoonotic Infectious Ailments
on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention
Affected person security is typically outlined as “a self-discipline within the healthcare sector.” Whereas many would agree that is correct, we should always take it a step additional and outline it as “a self-discipline and a accountability within the healthcare sector.” Affected person security is an pressing, world public well being concern, and the accountability of making a tradition that helps secure healthcare lies with all of us: healthcare suppliers, public well being professionals, sufferers, households, and policymakers alike.
Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) works with healthcare, public well being, federal, in addition to private and non-private companions to enhance healthcare high quality and affected person outcomes by figuring out greatest practices and translating them into actions, sharing information, and conducting modern analysis to seek out extra efficient methods to supply the most secure care at each encounter.
CDC additionally companions with affected person and household representatives to enhance healthcare high quality and affected person outcomes. These companions are people and relations who’ve suffered personally or tragically misplaced a liked one. They’ve devoted their lives to enhancing affected person security by telling their tales, sharing info, elevating consciousness, and calling for modifications to make sure others would not have an analogous expertise.
By listening to companions’ views, wants, and proposed options, CDC has gained a greater understanding of actions we are able to take and methods we are able to work with these companions that enables sufferers and households to advocate for secure healthcare for themselves and their family members. Examples of the way by which CDC has partnered with affected person and households embrace:
- Offering crucial info to permit sufferers to guard themselves and their family members from getting an an infection when receiving well being care.
- Emphasizing the significance of the connection between sufferers and their healthcare suppliers.
- Addressing gaps within the public’s consciousness of sepsis, infections, and antimicrobial resistance.
- Serving to sufferers to know what actions to take when an an infection isn’t getting higher or worsening.
- Educating the general public about when an antibiotic or antifungal is required and when it’s not together with when it may be probably dangerous, even lethal.
The angle that affected person and household representatives provide once they share their private experiences highlights crucial elements of a affected person’s healthcare expertise that aren’t at all times instantly seen to us at CDC. It’s our accountability to take this info and apply it to the insurance policies, practices, and applications which are designed to enhance affected person security.
CDC is launching a weblog sequence on affected person security to showcase the work of sufferers and households that can present sensible methods people and their households can keep knowledgeable on vital subjects equivalent to an infection prevention, applicable antibiotic and antifungal use, and antimicrobial resistance.
CDC should and can proceed to work with companions to achieve our shared objective of enhancing affected person security, together with addressing well being disparities and enhancing healthcare fairness. If you’re desirous about partnering with CDC to assist enhance affected person security, please fill out this type and inform us just a little extra about your self, or your group, and your areas of curiosity. Collectively, we are able to accomplish that rather more to make a distinction.
Dr. Denise Cardo is the director of the Division of Healthcare High quality Promotion (DHQP), Nationwide Heart for Rising and Zoonotic Infectious Ailments (NCEZID) on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).
Denise Cardo, MD, Management Bio
Kerri Moran is the Affiliate Director for Strategic Partnerships within the Division of Healthcare High quality Promotion (DHQP) on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).
