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Infection control professionals attempting to comply with accreditors and do a root-cause analysis of fatal nosocomial infections must set narrow patient definitions and work closely with their quality improvement colleagues if any meaningful prevention data are to come out of the controversial initiative, an ICP warned.
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In a finding that may foretell resurgence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), researchers in China have found that there may be two distinct strains behind the global SARS outbreak.
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Forget antibiotic-resistant pathogens and even bloodborne infections. If you want to strike fear in the heart of health care workers, mention scabies.
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Infection control professionals considering the exciting trial by fire of being an expert witness should be ready to think like a lawyer and realize they are entering into a realm where there are more questions than answers, a former colleague turned attorney advised.
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The Oakbrook Terrace-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations proposed infection control standards for 2005 include a more prescriptive approach that already is proving controversial.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has raised the ante again on infection control professionals, drafting prescriptive new standards for 2005 and putting the field at the top of the list for surprise inspections next year.
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The new HIPAA rules also present a challenge to medical researchers, who need to be able to identify individual patients in clinical studies and to track them over time.
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On April 14, 2003, the new Privacy Standard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) went into effect. In the following three articles, we will take a look at different strategies occ-med professionals have employed to come into compliance with the new law.
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A 55-year-old man in the National Guard suffered a fatal heart attack following smallpox vaccination as this issue of Occupational Health Management went to press.