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The quote above underscores the importance of infection preventionists building a bond with their clinical laboratory colleagues, an important outreach presumably made somewhat easier when the IP is the laboratorian.
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Donald Wright, MD, MPH, principal deputy assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is chairman of the newly formed HHS Steering Commission for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections.
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It began with an exchange between an infection preventionist and a clinical manager over a piece of equipment, a walker used to allow unassisted movement by patients.
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In an age when it's hard to keep track of the latest cell phone features, sharing infection prevention tools on the web would appear to be an idea whose time has long since come.
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Although enzyme-immunoassay (EIA) tests have replaced cytotoxin assays for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in most U.S. laboratories, the changing epidemiology of this disease suggests that an adjustment in diagnostic testing algorithms is needed.
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Having worked in infection prevention for more than three decades, Barbara Soule, RN, MPA, CIC, has come full circle.
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Early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) has been shown to reduce hospital mortality from severe sepsis and septic shock. Puskarich et al hypothesized that long-term outcome would also be improved.
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