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Faced with a critical federal report on the lack of progress against healthcare associated infections, the nation's leading infection prevention groups find themselves in the thankless position of having to challenge the methodology of the report without appearing to be in denial about HAIs.
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Infection control interventions appear to be making a difference against central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), which have declined 18% nationally in a recent data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Commentary: There are approximately 16,000 hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) and > 29,000 solid-organ transplants performed in the United States each year.
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If your research site has not tackled the issue of optimizing its workflow and reducing the number of study delays, then now is the time to do so.
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There are invariably new and unexpected problems when research involves the Internet. And just when investigators and IRBs find a way to resolve some of these issues, new ones appear as the technology rapidly evolves.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) issued on May 26, 2010, a notice about its expectations with the completion of grants awarded from the funding provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA).
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From communication to documentation to staff training, clinical trial sites need to adhere to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
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Clinical trial sites trying to ensure data security face the rapidly changing threat of increasingly small and mobile technologies capable of breaching privacy and confidentiality, experts say.
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