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New guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on immunizing health care workers against seasonal influenza make the following key points and recommendations:
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The nations leading health care epidemiology groups have crafted model state legislation for infection rate disclosure laws to ensure ICPs have a leading voice in the process.
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Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) is most often nosocomially acquired and usually affects older, sicker patients. The incidence of hospital discharges with a diagnosis of CDAD in the United States increased by 26% between 2000 and 2001.
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Mandating seasonal health care worker flu vaccinations an issue so contentious it led to open revolt in the first U.S. hospital that tried it is being considered as a new standard by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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In requesting input whether it should develop a standard requiring seasonal flu immunization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) made the following key points:
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Sports and recreation-related injuries commonly are seen in the offices of internists, family practitioners, and pediatricians. They may be the first physician to whom the injured athlete turns, or they may be referred from an urgent care or emergency department.
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Aggressive LDL lowering with statins, so-called "very intensive statin therapy," leads to reversal of coronary atherosclerosis, according to a new study.
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As the nations hospitals scramble to implement pandemic plans, avian influenza A (H5N1) continues to wing its seemingly inevitable way toward North America in the flight of migratory birds. Those televised images of garbed decontamination teams and piles of dead chickens soon could be emanating from the United States.
