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Dr. Kevin Kavanagh
Kevin Kavanagh, MD, MS is Board Chairman of Health Watch USA, a non-profit patient safety healthcare policy organization. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Patient Safety and serves on the National Quality Forum’s Consensus Standards Approval Committee (CSAC) and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services’ Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program Technical Expert Panel (TEP).
Latest posts by Dr. Kevin Kavanagh (see all)
  • COVID-19 Risk Adjustment, Driving Transformation or Normalizing Deviance?It is Our Choice - 27th September 2022
  • Distortion of Science to Inhibit the Adoption of Infectious Disease Strategies - 13th November 2020
  • Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Transform Health Care ? - 11th November 2020

COVID-19 Risk Adjustment, Driving Transformation or Normalizing Deviance? It is Our Choice

27/09/2022

On Health

There is no doubt that COVID-19 has placed great stress on our healthcare system. In many areas of the world, healthcare systems neared collapse with… Read more »

Distortion of Science to Inhibit the Adoption of Infectious Disease Strategies

13/11/2020

On Health

2020 has seen some governments ignoring their own healthcare advice, and in the USA top officials have publicly flaunted the wearing of masks What effects has… Read more »

Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Transform Health Care ?

11/11/2020

On Health

Over the past two decades, the world has seen major epidemics from EBOLA, SARS and MERS. Some countries have learnt lessons from these, and other countries… Read more »

The changing narrative of MRSA infection control in the United States

19/06/2019

On Health

MRSA is now endemic in the United States with approximately 2% of the general population carrying the disease. In a commentary published today in Antimicrobial… Read more »

The incidence of MRSA infections in the United States: is a more comprehensive tracking system needed?

Methicillin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus_(MRSA)_Bacteria

10/04/2017

On Health

In the recent article in Antimicrobial Research & Infection Control, healthcare policy researchers from Health Watch USA questioned the effectiveness of the… Read more »

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