The Patient Survival Guide: 8 Simple Solutions to Prevent Hospital- and Healthcare-Associated Infections - Softcover

Dr. Maryanne McGuckin has over 35 years of experience as a faculty and staff member of University of Pennsylvania. Currently she is a Senior Scholar in Health Policy Department at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. McGuckin’s specialty is infection control and hospital epidemiology. Dr. McGuckin created the Partners in Your Care program, a hand hygiene program which combines monitoring and patient empowerment and is used in several hundred hospitals in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. McGuckin served on the 2002 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) task force that developed Hand Hygiene Guidelines for Healthcare Workers, and currently is a member of the World Health Organization task force on developing a global patient empowerment model.

Toni L. Goldfarb is president of TLG Publications, a medical communications firm. She was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Medical Abstracts Newsletter and her clients have included Advanstar Communications, Medical Economics, Doctor's Digest/Clinician's Digest, Whittle Communications, Pfizer, and Wyeth-Ayerst.

Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., F.C.C.M. is a critical care specialist at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.