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A high intake of nondairy protein may accelerate renal function decline in women with mild renal insufficiency.
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Detection of Alzheimers Disease and Dementia in the Preclinical Phase; Shoe Design and Plantar Pressures in Neuropathic Feet; Serum Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Assessment of Severity of Tissue Hypothyroidism in Patients with Overt Primary Thyroid Failure.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has besieged hospitals in Toronto, spreading from patients to health care workers and now threatening to emerge independently in a community where 9,000 people already are under quarantine.
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Empowering patients by educating them to ask their caregivers to wash their hands can dramatically improve compliance, an infection control professional reported recently in Washington, DC, at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.1
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The aftermath of one undiagnosed case of Cruztfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) was so traumatizing across the board that a hospital decided to adopt extremely rigorous sterilization procedures on a permanent basis.
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The purpose of this pre- and post-intervention observation study was to evaluate the effect of an educational initiative on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rate. The educational program was directed toward respiratory therapists and critical care nurses. The patient population consisted of those developing VAP during a two-year period.
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Given recent events from emerging infections to the threat of bioterrorism, infection control professionals likely will be prepared for unannounced visits from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. They cant afford not to be.
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In a special report on infection control and the environment of care, a Joint Commission publication cited the following suggestions as key points and checklists regarding infection control and the environment of care.
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