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Medical journals nationwide are taking a harder look at their conflict-of-interest or financial disclosure policies, as publications acknowledge a spate of embarrassing examples of journals failing to cite ties between authors and the companies producing the treatments they write about.
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Lift equipment sits unused in a closet. Safety needles are deposited in a sharps container without being activated. An employee fails to put on goggles when there's a risk of a body fluid splash.
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Standing in an awkward posture, reaching across a patient, pressing on a transducer, twisting to look at a monitor -- the daily tasks of sonographers put them at risk of musculoskeletal injury.
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Underreporting injuries makes it more difficult to evaluate and correct hazards. But overreporting on the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) log can inflate your incidence rate.
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Suppose you want to know how many employees have gone 11 months or more since their last tuberculosis screening test. Can your software spit out that list?
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At an estimated cost of more than $120 billion, we spend five times as much on direct and indirect costs related to occupational injury and illness as we do on HIV/AIDS and three times more than the cost of Alzheimer's disease.
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From TB skin tests and immunizations to use of safety devices, it's often a struggle to convince health care workers to comply with the rules and policies that are designed to keep them safe from harm.
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When needlesticks began to level off at BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, it was time to jump-start the sharps safety program. Injuries occurred despite the health system's use of safety devices.
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Patients are getting heavier and sicker, nurses are getting older, and hospitals are facing a nursing shortage.
