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It seems impossible when she recalls it, but Kathleen Kohut, MSN, CIC, CNOR, director of infection prevention at Cone Health System in Winston-Salem, NC, tells a story of an infection prevention department that was left out of the discussion of meeting infection prevention standards for an upcoming Joint Commission survey.
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On April 1, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, which directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to postpone post-payment audits of the two-midnight rule until after March 31, 2015.
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A decade ago, ECRI investigated a series of incidents in which patients were burned sometimes severely by blankets that were warmed to a high temperature and placed on body parts that either temporarily or permanently lacked sensation.
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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.
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A few years back, staff suggestion boxes were a big thing. It was as if there was a burgeoning realization that people who didnt have big titles might sometimes have a good idea on how to make things better.
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In this pooled analysis of more than 7700 ovarian cancer patients and nearly 12,000 controls, low dose aspirin and high dose non-aspirin NSAID use was associated with a risk reduction for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer of 20 to 34% relative to non-users.
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