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Frequent hand washing appears to heighten the risk for irritant contact dermatitis in health care workers, particularly those genetically predisposed to the condition, investigators report.
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The perception of health care risks motivates behaviors in health care workers as well as patients. Several years after the SARS outbreak in China and Hong Kong, Japanese industrial scientists found that health care workers had a high perception of risk for SARS manifest primarily by a desire to avoid patients. At the same time these workers had a low acceptance of risk and felt little personal control.
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In what could be a boon for infection surveillance and treatment programs, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new rapid test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that can identify the bug in two hours.
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The Joint Commission has broadly expanded its emphasis on infection prevention in proposed 2009 patient safety goals that recommend specific strategies to fight a veritable "murderers' row" of health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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Most critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation, and, according to one large survey, the weaning process occupies about 40% of the time that patients spend connected to the ventilator.
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n this issue: Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions.
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A prospective observational study was conducted to assess diagnostic and therapeutic efficacies of a daily routine CXR and to evaluate the impact of discontinuing this practice. The setting was a 10-bed mixed medical-surgical ICU of a non-academic teaching hospital in The Netherlands.
