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The national epidemic of Clostridium difficile is moving into the pediatric population, causing infections in children that prolong hospitalizations, increase morbidity and spell a striking increase in the risk of death.
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When it comes to MRSA infection control in the chaotic emergency department (ED), enhanced attention to standard precautions and hand hygiene is a more cost-effective approach than active screening cultures, researchers report.
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More health care workers responded to this season's push for influenza vaccination by rolling up their sleeves and getting the vaccine.
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In the H1N1 influenza A pandemic, many infected health care workers failed to wear personal protective equipment. They became sick after caring for infected patients. In addition, they were infected after socializing with co-workers who came to work sick.
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In October 2010, The Joint Commission told Hospital Peer Review it was going to change the way core, or ORYX, measure data was used to accredit hospitals.
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Despite his modesty about his work and life, James L. Reinertsen, MD, received a 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award for individual achievement from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum.
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From new and revised standards to new levels of accreditation, this year will bring some changes in Joint Commission expectations.
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When Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital joined with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and nine other hospitals to work on hand-offs, the health system's associate chief medical officer says the first step was identifying which hand-offs the hospital wanted to work on.
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[In the first two articles of this series, Vicki Searcy, president, consulting services at Morrisey Associates Inc. in Chicago, introduced the four basic components of clinical privileging as well as creating criteria for privileges:
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It was the first Joint Commission survey for Elizabeth Donnenwirth, RN, accreditation/sharps safety specialist at Winchester Hospital in Winchester, MA. But she says there weren't many surprises.
