Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• Financial Incentives to Promote Healthcare Quality:  The Hospital Acquired Conditions Nonpayment Policy.  Manuscript In Press, The Journal of Social Work in Public Health.   2011 Sep 26(5):524-541.  
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19371918.2011.533554    

• Commentary on Swiss/Geneva MRSA Study Published in JAMA (Harbarth, Fankhauser, Schrenzel, et.al, 2008).    Kavanagh K, Abusalem S. Mounting evidence supports universal surveillance for MRSA in preoperative patients. J Am Coll Surg. 2011 Aug;213(2):335-6. PMID: 21787990.   
   

• Letter to the editor In response to "Assessing nursing staffing ratios: variability in workload intensity". Policy Polit Nurs Pract. 2007 Aug;8(3):182. PMID: 18178924

Publications in Bulletins and Magazines

• Health Care Integration:  Will Physicians lose their voice?  Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons.
  http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/bulletin/2011/kavanagh0611.pdf 

HW USA - In House Publications and Policy Reports 

• The role of Surveillance Cultures in the Prevention of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Acute Care Facilities, Nov. 22, 2010.   Download PDF 557 K

• Hospital Acquired Infections: The necessity of prevention and Mandatory Surveillance. Word Count 1464, Feb. 4, 2008  Download PDF 504 K

• Consumer Driven Health Care - Transparency, Value and Certificate of Need. Word Count 5915 -- April 6, 2007, Updated June 15, 2007.   Download PDF 570 K

Health Policy Postings & Comments:

• Medicare's Payment Policy for Hospital Acquired Conditions.  The Commonwealth Fund  July 5, 2011.   http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Publications/In-the-Literature/2011/Jun/Medicares-Payment-Policy-for-Hospital-Acquired-Conditions.aspx?view=comments 

The picture on the right is a photomicrograph of
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA).