{"id":38379,"date":"2023-02-20T11:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38379"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:14:57","slug":"word-of-the-day-868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/20\/word-of-the-day-868\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nosocomial<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/answers\/nosocomial-infection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nosocomial infections<\/a>, also called health-care-associated or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/answers\/nosocomial-infection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hospital-acquired infections<\/a>, are a subset of infectious diseases acquired in a health-care facility. To be considered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/answers\/nosocomial-infection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nosocomial<\/a>, the infection cannot be present at admission; rather, it must develop at least 48 hours after admission. These infections can lead to serious problems like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/learn\/Sepsis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sepsis<\/a> and even death.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osmosis.org\/answers\/nosocomial-infection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Osmosis<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/erictopol.substack.com\/p\/the-hospital-at-home-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hospital-at-Home movement<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; Eric Topol, <strong><em>Ground Truths<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1946,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orwell.ru\/library\/articles\/Poor_Die\/english\/e_pdie\" rel=\"\">George Orwell wrote<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>How the Poor Die<\/em>\u00a0that the hospital is a sort of \u201cantechamber to the tomb.\u201d While we have been well aware of the escalating costs of hospitalization, along with n<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/192908\" rel=\"\">osocomial infections (acquired in hospital), the unnecessary procedures performed, and the medical errors\u00a0<\/a>that are frequently made, it took the pandemic to awaken the fledgling hospital-at-home strategy in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only works if the poor have access to telemedicine, if I understand the article properly. And I wonder about the mess that accompanies hospitalization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nosocomial: Nosocomial infections, also called health-care-associated or\u00a0hospital-acquired infections, are a subset of infectious diseases acquired in a health-care facility. To be considered\u00a0nosocomial, the infection cannot be present at admission; rather, it must develop at least 48 hours after admission. These infections can lead to serious problems like\u00a0sepsis and even death.\u00a0[Osmosis] \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/20\/word-of-the-day-868\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38380,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379\/revisions\/38380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}