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With TB at a record low in U.S., OSHA ramps up inspections in healthcare
OSHA — which lost an epic battle with the infection control community to adopt a separate tuberculosis standard more than a decade ago — has decided to put TB back on its radar and update compliance requirements for healthcare settings.
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A 58% mortality rate: 509 healthcare workers have died in Ebola outbreak in West Africa
During the historic Ebola outbreak in West Africa that is now making its last stand, 509 healthcare workers gave their lives trying to save others. The deaths translate to a mortality rate of 58% of the 875 healthcare workers infected as of July 5, 2015, the WHO reports.
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APIC President: IPs are ‘living history’ in their fight against infections
Enduring partnerships must be formed with a wide variety of colleagues to meet the continual challenge of the next crisis.
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Eyewitness to History: IPs Tell their Ebola Stories
Infection preventionists have responded to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in a variety of ways. Here's what they saw.
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Treating HAIs with Ebola team approach could save lives
The Ebola outbreak that fueled fear in America and still smolders on in West Africa has left infection preventionists with a legion of lessons to ponder. Accordingly, practical points on improving communications, training, donning and doffing of protective gear were recently discussed in Nashville at the opening session of the annual APIC conference. But in addition to some 4,300 infection preventionists, there was an elephant in the room.
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GI QI success expands to other specialties
A quality bundle created for colorectal surgical patients has proved so successful that it is being expanded to other units at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in the hopes that the financial and clinical benefits can spread to other specialties.
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FORCE-TJR chooses 16 for PQRS
Patricia Franklin, MD, FACS, the registrar of FORCE-TJR, shared the 16 new measures it uses for the Physician Quality Reporting System. Data on these will be forwarded to the government, and will also be crunched into the usual bits for benchmarking and comparison amongst the other FORCE members.
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CMS certifies registry as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry
CMS has certified FORCE-TJR, the national registry for total hip and knee joint replacement patients and their surgical outcomes, as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry. This allows members to use their data for submission to the Physician Quality Reporting System, avoiding a 2% payment adjustment for failing to do so. The Medical Group Management Association has estimated that up to 40% of providers with Medicare patients will be docked pay for not submitting this data.
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Questions to ask Patients About Medication History
Here are 12 great questions to get you started.
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Are You Worrying About Med Rec?
Patient safety and quality issues seem to have years when they are popular and then years when they fall out of favor, when other items get all the press.