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Eliminating needlesticks was once an official federal goal. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promoted it as a "health care challenge." More modestly, Healthy People 2010 set a measurable goal of reducing needlesticks among hospital-based health care workers by 30%.
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The winner of the Healthcare Administrator Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is the chief executive officer of an ambulatory surgery center.
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In its previous "Recommended Practice for Surgical Attire," the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) didn't recommend home laundering, but for those facilities that did it, it offered some guidance on how to do it as safely as possible.
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A just-released study showing that smokers have significantly more complications post-surgery than non-smokers, including a higher death rate, coupled with new Medicare reimbursement for physicians who provide counseling to prevent tobacco use for outpatients and hospitalized patients have outpatient surgery managers taking a new look at smoking cessation programs.
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An outbreak of cholera is ongoing in Haiti. As of Nov. 10, 2010, the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population (MSPP) of Haiti reported 12,303 hospital admissions and 796 deaths in six geographic departments.
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Teshale and colleagues reviewed Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) infections and the two distinct presentations associated with this virus infection.
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In this issue: Tiotropium for uncontrolled asthma, sibutramine pulled from market, incidence and mortality data from WHI, FDA Actions.
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One month after being treated for "pneumonia," an 8-year-old boy from Botswana presented with a one-day history of fever, cough, and chest pain.