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Planning and effective delivery of care in outpatient settings is critical to the nation's pandemic flu preparedness, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states. Though a physician's group recently questioned the adequacy of HHS planning for nonhospital settings, the HHS does have some guidance for outpatient care.
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Perception may be as important as reality when it comes to preventing needlestick injuries to health care workers. The more workers perceive that their facility has a "culture of safety," the less likely they are to sustain a needlestick, reports Scott Grytdal, MPH, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The editors do us a fascinating and frightening favor by reprinting this historical firsthand account by a physician-in-training facing the 1918 flu pandemic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
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Two distinctly different infections are sparking common concern about their virulence and alarming increase: A new strain of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) and the increasing threat of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(CA-MRSA).
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According to the rapidly changing map on the web site of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), as this issue went to press, 14 states had adopted laws requiring mandatory reporting of hospital infection rates and many others are in some stage of legislative study or discussion.
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Fueled by anger and frustration often linked to the death or injury of a loved one, a grass-roots consumer movement is arising nationally to demand more openness and accountability about hospital-acquired infections.
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Over the last two decades, methamphetamine use has increased drastically in the United States and it has become one of the most popular illicit drugs in the country, particularly along the West Coast and in the Mid West.
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As the American work force ages and women make up more and more of the labor force, occupational health nurses are giving more attention to the effects menopause may have on employees' health and productivity, as well as how working conditions might affect menopause symptoms.
