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In the first six months of Keystone Mercy Health Plans Healthy Hoops program, which combines basketball and asthma management, the percentage of children in the program with an emergency department visit for asthma fell 26%, the percentage of children with a hospital admission decreased by 8%, and nighttime awakenings decreased by 70% among program participants.
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Occupational health professionals are constantly looking for ways to improve return to work (RTW) for injured or ill employees, but there has been little in the way of research into what makes disability leave, RTW, and stay at work (SAW) plans work or fail.
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After years of frustration with tuberculin skin tests, hospitals have a chance to revolutionize their TB screening with a new blood test.
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This is an excerpt from the Guidelines for Using Quantiferon-TB Gold issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Ergonomics is a science of workplace design. But in practice, it also presents a mathematical puzzle and a behavioral challenge.
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Health care workers are breathing easier thanks to a widespread shift toward powder-free latex gloves.
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Health care workers taking a break and smoking in the cafeteria, the hallways, or even beside the loading dock don't exactly convey the image of a healthy environment ...
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A safe patient handling program can start with selection of appropriate equipment, a plan for implementation, and a core group of trained employees.
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Despite your best efforts to promote sharps safety, some of your health care workers still use conventional needles and sharp devices that lack an integral safety feature.
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In its first two seasons of use, the intranasal influenza vaccine FluMist did not lead to "unexpected serious risks," ...
