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The sample covered 994 hospitals in 37 states and included a total of 124,570 patients.
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As the 2007-2008 flu season strikes, infection control and employee health professionals are reminded that a new Joint Commission standard requiring accredited organizations to offer influenza vaccinations to staff now is in effect.
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The recent widely publicized finding that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus now kills more people annually than HIV/AIDS in the United States could result in a shift in public health priorities and funding as the true impact of MRSA in health care and the community comes to painful light.
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Q. Could you elaborate on your statement during your presentation that "in 15 years, all staph would be resistant?"
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While methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has grabbed recent national media attention and alarmed the public, there is a quiet but troubling trend of emerging resistance in lesser-known gram-negative bacteria, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently warned.
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On Labor Day weekend 2006, our 27-year- old son Josh broke his femur and fractured his skull.
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In this prospectively identified cohort of patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza requiring hospital admission, treatment of adults with oseltamivir was associated with a clinically significant reduction in mortality within 15 days, the authors found.
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Despite a Joint Commission recommendation that cancer patients ages 50 years and older get seasonal flu shots, many are putting their lives at risk by not doing so.
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The Joint Commission recently announced that its Division of Quality Research and Measurement will study how rapid tests for influenza are implemented in outpatient medical settings including solo and group practice physician offices, community health centers, and acute care hospital emergency departments throughout the United States.
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There have been several unintended consequences projected about recent pay-for-performance changes by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), but could one of them be an unexpected boon to infection control budgets?
