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These questions and answers were excerpted from the 2005 CDC "Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of TB in Health-Care Settings"...
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In February, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations provided some new answers to commonly asked questions about complying with its National Patient Safety Goal on hand hygiene.
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The five rules of causation are designed to improve the root-cause analysis (RCA) process by creating minimum standards for where an investigation and the results should be documented.
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A newly hired health care worker tests positive in the tuberculin skin test. She comes from a country where TB is endemic, and she received the BCG vaccine as a child.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) continues to emphasize that the historic lack of compliance with hand hygiene practices by health care workers will no longer wash.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is listed as a co-authoring agency on a recently published book that urges patients to demand that health care workers wash their hands.
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The Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety has launched a new "in-development" Patient Safety Practices resource on the center's web site.
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When you must discharge a homeless patient with nowhere to go, make sure you document extremely well and avoid making mistakes that can cast your hospital in a bad light, experts advise.
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As Americans get bigger and hospitals see more large patients seeking bariatric surgery, risk managers are worried about the increased liability risk they pose.
