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Employees are likely to have a wide range of questions about caring for their injection site and protecting others from contracting the disease. Here are a few questions and answers provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Death rates from influenza are rising with the aging of the U.S. population, and the virus now kills an average of 36,000 people a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new data underscore the need to protect vulnerable patients from nosocomial spread by vaccinating health care workers, public health experts say.
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When needlestick injuries occur, work practices often are a contributing factor. Training is an essential component of maintaining safe practices. And while bloodborne pathogen training may focus on specific protective devices, it also needs to address and correct some common misconceptions.
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How great is the risk of a smallpox attack? That question underlies the current campaign to vaccinate health care workers and military personnel and to offer the vaccinia vaccine to those who want it in the general public. The benefit of those vaccines cant be calculated without an estimate of the risk both of smallpox and of vaccine-related adverse events. Researchers at the RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, CA, have attempted to do just that.
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As the liability insurance crisis comes to a head in many states and some surgeons are organizing walkouts, facilities are facing dire financial impact from those walkouts.
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In a report to be submitted this month to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) will recommend that ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) receive no inflation update for 2004 Medicare payments and that no surgical procedures be paid more in an ASC than a hospital outpatient department.
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Question: How do I assess my readiness for the privacy requirements?
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) has conducted a survey of open but unused single-use devices (SUDs) and has concluded that theres no need for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the handling of such devices.
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Outpatient managers typically assume that their anesthetists adhere to basic infection control practices, such as using needles and syringes only once. Three hepatitis C outbreaks and a survey in the last two years make the point perfectly clear: Some providers probably one in 100 are not following the basics.
