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A "tool kit" created by an expert panel on hospital infection reporting laws addresses the controversial issue of surgical site infections (SSIs), advising ICPs and state legislatures to focus tracking and reporting efforts on the most severe SSIs to ensure fair comparative data.
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Hospitals and other medical facilities that do not use rapid HIV assays to test source patients after a blood exposure to a health care worker risk citations and fines by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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Though conceding there is considerable evidence to support the use of active surveillance cultures (ASC) to detect patient colonization with antimicrobial-resistant pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the nation's leading infection prevention groups have come out jointly against mandating the practice through legislation.
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The Joint Commission is trying to solve the Achilles heel of hand hygiene: monitoring compliance by health care workers. As part of its increasing emphasis on infection control, the The Joint Commission is seeking innovative and cost-effective methods to address adherence to hand hygiene guidelines.
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This study from the excellent group at University of California in San Diego had standard population-based HIV genotyping performed on plasma obtained from all antiretroviral (ARV)-naïve patients who received care in publicly funded clinics in San Diego County during the 2005 calendar year.
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A number of retrospective studies have provided evidence that, relative to therapy with semisynthetic penicillins such as nafcillin, vancomycin is inferior in the treatment of bactermic infections due to methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA).
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This interesting study from Denmark used data from the comprehensive Danish Civil Registration System to examine mortality in siblings of HIV/HCV-coinfected patients, HIV-monoinfected patients, and controls.
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Citalopram Useful for Depression in CDA Patients; When to Stop Anticoagulation Before Surgery?; Drug Warnings: Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab; Growth Hormone Treatment, More Harm Than Good; FDA Actions
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