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Case reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included the following details about three bacterial meningitis cases in postpartum women in New York:
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When I was an IP Newbie back in January 1990, my manager insisted literally made me go to the monthly local APIC chapter meetings.
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After some 20 years in infection prevention, Allison McGeer, MD, has weathered both the 2003 Toronto outbreak of SARS and the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza A pandemic.
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The Joint Commission's 2010 patient safety goal to prevent multidrug-resistant infections (NPSG.07.03.01) includes the following key aspects and elements of performance:
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Your clinic has distributed brochures on contraceptive methods, put up posters in the waiting room and exam rooms, and passed out printed information along with pill packs.
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How often do you include counseling on long-acting reversible contraceptives in your discussions of birth controls? Look for new opportunities, according to a recent presentation by Michael Policar, MD, MPH, medical director of the University of California San Francisco/Family PACT Program Support and Evaluation in Sacramento.
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Clinicians are familiar with use of dedicated emergency contraceptive (EC) products such as Plan B One-Step (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA) and Next Choice (Watson Pharmaceuticals), as well as the EC use of the copper T380A intrauterine device (ParaGard IUD, Duramed Pharmaceuticals).
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Flip through your patient files from the last week. If you see heavy menstrual bleeding checked several times in your charts, there's a good reason: One-third of all women report such bleeding at some point during their lives.
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Shannon is a 15-year-old patient who is sexually active. She has previously used oral contraceptives, but Shannon experienced an unplanned pregnancy when she missed several days of pills in her pill pack and failed to come in for emergency contraception. What birth control methods can you offer?
