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The family and friends of MRSA victims are sometimes galvanized to action by the death of a loved one. One of them is Tara Hopper, who became a lawyer and MRSA activist after she watched her best friend Elizabeth Ann Reilly fall to the bacterial infection in the prime of her short life.
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Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, remembers the stick as if it happened in slow-motion, the details still clear to her 12 years later. She had helped a co-worker draw blood from a patient in the emergency department. She turned to reach behind her for the sharps container. Mounted high on the wall, it was overfilled, but she couldn't see it well because it was above eye level.
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While The Joint Commission will have no new National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for 2011, it has revised elements of performance (EPs) within those goals to remove specific requirements related to clinical practice. The changes to the EPs are effective immediately.
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Even 20-plus years into the North American HIV epidemic among injection drug users (IDUs) it is theoretically possible to eliminate the epidemic, dramatically cutting transmission among this aÿ
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Investigators at the Bethesda, MD-based Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences have found strong evidence that HIV has become more virulent over the past 25 years.
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Investigators analyzing data from 1996 to 2007 of more than 35,000 HIV-infected patients have found that people appear to have higher CD4 counts when entering care now than they did 14 years ago. But they're not high enough.
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Two-hundred eleven adipose biopsies were obtained from 59 patients participating in the Western Australia HIV cohort study.
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Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, remembers the stick as if it happened in slow-motion, the details still clear to her 12 years later.
