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Health care workers with positive TB skin tests frequently decline treatment for latent tuberculosis infection, putting themselves, their co-workers, and patients at risk, tuberculosis experts say.
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Avian influenza challenges our usual assumptions about how influenza is spread and how to protect health care workers from infection.
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Infection control practices for pandemic influenza are the same as other human influenza viruses ...
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Mandating seasonal health care worker flu vaccinations -- an issue so contentious it led to open revolt in the first U.S. hospital that tried it ...
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In requesting input whether it should develop a standard requiring seasonal flu immunization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) made the following key points: ...
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For many hospitals, encouraging health care workers (HCWs) to receive the flu vaccine is an annual exercise in futility.
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In a major new emphasis on patient safety, the JCAHO is warning that failure to keep track of the medications needed by transferred patients is resulting in preventable deaths.
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As performance improvement programs and the ability to track data and trends from OBQI reports have become more sophisticated, home health agencies report improvements in all categories, except hospital readmission rates.
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Despite national and various regional focuses on improving minority access to hospice, many challenges remain, hospice diversity experts say.
