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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for chronically HBV-infected health-care providers and students include the following key measures:
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Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, director of Infection Prevention and Quality at Methodist Hospital for Surgery in Addison, TX, has been elected the 2013 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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Past research has linked contact precautions with adverse health events like patients developing delirium, increased risk of falls, or pressure ulcers.
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Infectious diseases account for a significant percentage of emergency department (ED) visits each year and are frequent sources of litigation.
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Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Supplement to Clinical Cardiology Alert, Clinical Oncology Alert, Critical Care Alert, Hospital Medicine Alert, Infectious Disease Alert, Neurology Alert, OB/GYN Clinical Alert, Primary Care Reports.
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This large, multicenter, quality improvement project showed a dramatic reduction in mortality among patients with severe sepsis or septic shock after implementation of a sepsis treatment bundle.
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In 2011, 2 men died of amebic meningoencephalitis in Louisiana.
