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The Institute of Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) How-to Guide: Improving Hand Hygiene, was developed in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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Sixty hospitals were among the 14,000 employers nationwide who received cautionary letters from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for high rates of employee injury.
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Nurses face myriad chemical hazards that may raise their risk of cancer, asthma and reproductive problems.
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As concern grows over antibiotic-resistant organisms, health care workers never have been under greater scrutiny for their compliance with hand hygiene.
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Don't get too comfortable with your current safety sharps. Failing to keep up with new technology could make you vulnerable to a citation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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When Peace Health opens its new hospital in Eugene, OR, it will have the latest and greatest technology, private rooms, and attractive décor.
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Why would Emergency Medicine Reports publish an article about "chronic" wounds? As we well know, many patients with chronic conditions come to the emergency department (ED), and those with chronic wounds are no exception. The incidence of chronic skin wounds is likely to increase to due the rise in obesity and diabetes, as well as aging in the general population.
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Electronic data capture (EDC) systems are supposed to make data collection and analysis easier and more accurate for clinical research (CR) teams. But often CR coordinators and investigators find the systems to be counterintuitive, inflexible, and difficult to navigate.
