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Lippincott's Nursing Advisor Adds New Evidence-based Resources for Preventing Deadly, Costly Hospital-Acquired Conditions

Lippincott's Nursing Advisor Adds New Evidence-based Resources for Preventing Deadly, Costly Hospital-Acquired Conditions - Yahoo! Finance

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced today that it has added exceptional new resources to help prevent hospital-acquired conditions to Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor, an online evidence-based reference that allows instant access to trusted nursing clinical information. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.

Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor provides nurses with updated, evidence-based, actionable and point-of-care ready best prevention practices for each of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS) identified hospital-acquired conditions subject to non-payment, including:

Air embolism
Blood incompatibility errors
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
Deep vein thrombosis/Pulmonary embolism
Falls and trauma
Foreign object retained after surgery
Manifestations of poor glycemic control
Stage III and IV pressure ulcers
Surgical site infection following bariatric surgery
Surgical site infection following orthopedic procedures
Surgical site infection-Mediastinitis after coronary artery bypass graft surgery
Vascular catheter-associated infection


Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is the point-of-care tool that allows a facility to include its own customized protocols, such as specific present-on-admission (POA) coding instructions. The added resources in Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor also give clear guidelines for what to do when prevention measures fail.

In its 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded that medical errors, particularly hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), may be responsible for as many as 98,000 deaths annually, at costs of up to $29 billion. Additionally, a new study supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine warns pneumonia and sepsis alone caused by hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and increased U.S. healthcare costs by $8.1 billion in 2006.

“Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is a vital resource for hospitals faced with the challenge of preventing hospital-acquired conditions,” says Judy McCann, MSN, RN, and Chief Nursing Officer at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. “We offer the unique opportunity to not only ensure your staff has the CMMS evidence-based recommendations for hospital-acquired conditions at their fingertips but also a robust, evidence-based point-of-care reference tool with the capability to include your facility’s specific protocols.

Lippincott’s Nursing Advisor is designed to give nurses quick and efficient access to the specific information needed to provide optimal patient care, including expert content from the best-selling Nursing2011 Drug Handbook. Drug, disease, treatment, diagnostic test, care plan and signs and symptoms monographs provide essential information such as adverse reactions to a drug, pathophysiology of a disease, or an essential overview of a medical or surgical treatment. Unique customization features allow hospital protocols or critical notes pertaining to those areas to be added improving staff awareness, compliance and care standardization. This feature provides a valuable reference and training tool, customized to individual or system hospitals.