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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is setting the stage for regulatory action on occupational infection prevention in hospitals and other heath care settings.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs 153-hospital system has sharply reduced methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections through a nationwide program featuring active surveillance cultures (ASC), an epidemiologist reported recently in Atlanta at the Fifth Decennial Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs).
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The Joint Commission's longstanding patient safety goal on infection prevention underscores the critical importance of improving hand hygiene compliance by health care providers. Moreover, again in 2010, the Joint Commission urges infection preventionists and their colleagues to foster "a culture of hand hygiene" by monitoring compliance and providing feedback.
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Demonstrating that you're prepared is important when Joint Commission surveyors knock on your door, says Susan Bukunt, RN, MPA, CPHQ, senior director of clinical quality and patient safety at El Camino Hospital with two campuses in Los Gatos and Mountain View, CA. "Being able to give them what they're asking for shows them that you're ready and you take this seriously," she says.
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Piperacillin/Tazobactam (P/T) offers one of the broadest antimicrobial spectrums, and is equipped with an effective mechanism to maintain its potency in the presence of beta-lactamases.
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These authors assessed the benefits of antiviral therapy of the index flu patient on reduced viral shedding and prevention of secondary household cases who did not receive chemoprophylaxis.
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