{"id":1477,"date":"2013-04-29T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:09:50","slug":"hospital-safety-your-responsibility-or-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Hospital safety: your responsibility or theirs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AJC.COM\u00a0\u00a0April 28, 2013\u00a0 By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/staff\/carrie-teegardin\/\">Carrie Teegardin<\/a>\u00a0 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 Airline passengers don\u2019t review the preflight checklist with the pilot, and restaurant customers aren\u2019t expected to check the kitchen and the staff for cleanliness.<\/p>\n<p>But many health care experts say it\u2019s wise for hospital patients and their families to ask doctors and nurses to wash their hands, remove unnecessary catheters and explain how they will prevent an infection from developing after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The advice is an acknowledgement of reality: a hospital can be a dangerous place to spend the night.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20130419005640\/en\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJC.COM\u00a0\u00a0April 28, 2013\u00a0 By Carrie Teegardin\u00a0 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0 Airline passengers don\u2019t review the preflight checklist with the pilot, and restaurant customers aren\u2019t expected to check the kitchen and <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1477\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[120,80,126],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-hospital-medical-errors","tag-patient-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}