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It seems impossible when she recalls it, but Kathleen Kohut, MSN, CIC, CNOR, director of infection prevention at Cone Health System in Winston-Salem, NC, tells a story of an infection prevention department that was left out of the discussion of meeting infection prevention standards for an upcoming Joint Commission survey.
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If it seems as if your hospital takes two steps forward and one back when trying to conquer healthcare-associated infection rates, you arent alone.
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Every few months, another big headline is splashed across the mainstream media, touting the top 100 hospitals, or the best cancer doctors, or your citys number-one neurologist. But what is missing from these stories is the fact that often, a facility or physician can rank in different places on different lists fabulous on one, middling on another.
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Next seasons trivalent influenza vaccines will contain the same strains as this years vaccine but its still important to get the annual flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Hospital intensive care units (ICUs) in the U.S. report a high level of infection prevention policies in place, but the numbers fall off sharply when actual adherence to the interventions are factored in, researchers report.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) recommendations to patients to avoid acquiring pneumonia in the hospital include the following key measures:
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While expressing overall support with proposed federal reduction targets for health care associated infections, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) raised several concerns in comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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The latest health care associated infection (HAI) progress report shows that significant reductions were reported in 2012 for nearly all infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Joint Commission Resources recently issued tips and strategies to take infection control to the patient bedside, including the following summary of basic measures to prevent catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs)
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Amid all the numbers, estimates and extrapolations in recently released new data on health care associated infections, one particular HAI identified in a point prevalence study jumped out at epidemiologists and infection preventionists: nonventilator-associated pneumonia.
