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Clinicians missing mark on sex talk with teens
In a study looking at discussions held between pediatricians and family medicine physicians and teen-age patients, results show less than two-thirds of such interactions included talk about sex, sexuality, or dating during annual visits. -
Scope outbreak raises troubling questions
An upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half million patients annually in the United States might pose risk for transmission of the emerging New Delhi variety of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), even if current cleaning and high level disinfection protocols are followed. -
Same-Day Surgery - Full March 2014 Issue in PDF
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Case Management Advisor - Full April 1, 2014 Issue in PDF
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It takes creativity to help the chronically ill adhere
Chronic diseases are the nation's leading cause of death and most are preventable, but helping people keep them under control is a challenge for the healthcare industry. -
Cardiac patients get help via text message
Patients who participate in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics' text message program attend more rehab sessions than patients who do not participate. -
Telemonitoring reduces HF readmissions
At-risk members with heart failure are eligible to participate in UCare's telemonitoring program, which has dramatically reduced inpatient admissions and emergency department visits. -
New SSI guidelines: Making perfect the enemy of good?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidelines for preventing surgical site infections, focusing on some difficult issues in an exhaustive and largely futile attempt to find conclusive data on various practices. As a result, "no recommendation" is a recurrent theme in the document, which was the work of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).
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Eli Lilly joins CDC safe injection campaign
A government-private partnership is breathing new life into the One & Only Campaign, as Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand its injection safety program.
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Outbreak of rare etiology leads to oncology clinic
If not for several patients being hospitalized with highly unusual bacterial infections, a recently reported outbreak in a West Virginia outpatient oncology clinic may have gone undetected, an investigator with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.