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Contamination of some lots of this seasons influenza vaccine has led to a delay in distribution of about half the nations supply.
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Do you feel overwhelmed by the annual fit-testing rule? Youre in good company. Most of your peers at hospitals around the country rank the difficulty with compliance as a 7 out of 10 or worse, according to a survey by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in Atlanta.
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A multifaceted patient safety program that included a focus on infection control has garnered a Pittsburgh hospital a 2004 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award.
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An award-winning patient safety program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in McKeesport, PA, includes a focus on preventing troublesome Clostridium difficile infections.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations wants you to use ergonomic interventions.
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The need for less expensive and more efficient clinical trials has increased in recent years with drug discovery occurring at an explosive rate, and yet the clinical trials process has changed very little over the past decade, an information technologies expert says.
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As every clinical trials administrator knows, its difficult to predict every problem and extra cost that might occur during a lengthy trial process. But with experience and following best practice guidelines, an administrator may find that all goes as well as planned.
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It started with the research nurses but soon other staff involved in clinical trials wanted to take part in the comprehensive training program being offered at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Last year, the clinical research training program received the 2003 award of excellence for best practice from the Bethesda, MD-based Health Improvement Institute.
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The nine years that have gone into developing COEUS have resulted in software that research institutions may use, modify, and improve as they seek greater efficiency in data collection for research. COEUS brings core data from the study proposal and starts the set-up from the award process, says Stephen D. Dowdy, assistant director of MITs Office of Sponsored Programs, where COEUS was developed.