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Researchers and industrial engineers are working together on a project that could help hospital pharmacies improve patient safety through work process design.
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Hospital pharmacists who have been using an electronic system to meet USP 797 standards say it makes it easier to be consistent and timely with a variety of tasks.
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Hospital pharmacies have had to scramble to meet the tough revised requirements of the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) chapter 797 standards for pharmaceutical compounding and sterile preparations, which were made official on June 1, 2008.
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Digital cameras, blenders, food processors, waffle makers, espresso machines, jewelry, luggage, gas grills, fishing rods, and telescopes. These are some of the items that workers at Wika Instrument Corp., a Lawrenceville, GA-based manufacturer of pressure and temperature instrumentation, can receive for improving their own safety.
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Exercise can improve a worker's health and productivity. That's a no-brainer, right? The vast majority of employees and managers at your workplace probably take that statement as a given. But new data show that lack of exercise can actually cause chronic, costly, and debilitating diseases.
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Tam et al report long-term data from 300 CLL patients treated with the fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, and rituximab (FCR) regimen. Complete and overall response rates were 72% and 95%, respectively. The median time to progression was 80 months, and six-year overall survival was 77%. Late infection occurred in 10% after the first year of treatment, and almost 19% had persistent cytopenias after treatment. After adjusting for pre-treatment factors, FCR was associated with prolonged survival compared to other fludarabine regimens for initial treatment at the same center. The high activity and prolonged remissions suggest FCR as an excellent front-line regimen for CLL in select patients.
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