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Every month, up to 20 hours of overtime are saved in the ED at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, CA, by videotaping staff meetings and
inservices.
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Only half of ED staff would report a near-miss drug error if the patient was not harmed, according to this study from the Naval Hospital Jacksonville (FL).
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has issued new guidance on the selection and handling of respirators for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including recommendations to follow when respirators are either not available or in short supply.
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A glaring infection control violation and an unusual genotype of hepatitis C virus were key findings in what may be the largest reported HCV outbreak in an outpatient setting.
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Rather than merely isolating patients with known infections, infection control professionals should screen patients aggressively for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), according to new guidelines by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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The first recognized transmission of West Nile virus by organ transplantation and an unusual hepatitis C outbreak in organ recipients were both recently described in Washington, DC, at the annual conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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Despite use of full-barrier precautions, Canadian health care workers treating severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients for prolonged periods became infected with the emerging virus after minor lapses in infection control, a Toronto epidemiologist tells Hospital Infection Control.
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