Drug Resistance
Main Line Health Hospitals Select Premier Healthcare Alliance to Better Protect Patients against Healthcare Associated Infections, Antibiotic Overuse
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, June 1st, 2007
Main Line Health of Philadelphia has signed an agreement with the Premier Inc. healthcare alliance to use Premier SafetySurveillor(TM) to prevent outbreaks of infection and protect patients by continuously tracking healthcare infections and antibiotic use via Web-based reporting tools. SafetySurveillor will help Main Line meet current and potential state requirements for a uniformed surveillance system to comply with healthcare associated infections reporting, including universal screening of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile infections.
Main Line Health, which currently utilizes Premier ClinicalAdvisor(TM) for quality...
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