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How Emergency Medicine Leaders Can Implement an Intervention to Assess Suicide Risk
EDs will need to build a multidisciplinary implementation team to review their current care delivery, build improved protocols, deploy those protocols, adjust them iteratively over time to work out the kinks, and install methods for sustaining the effort long-term.
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U.S. Funding Targets Cancer Rates in Low-Income Neighborhoods
National Cancer Institute to manage a $50 million program to address structural and institutional factors of poverty related to cancer.
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APIC 2023 Keynote: IPs Must Reclaim Their Power
The 2023 APIC keynote speaker called for infection preventionists to reclaim their narrative, to tell people what they do in no uncertain terms, and to empower others to do likewise.
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Lax Infection Control Suspected in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
Infection control lapses, including the contamination of multidose vials of anesthetic, are suspected in a fungal meningitis outbreak that exposed about 200 American patients who received epidural injections this year in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico.
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Multidose Vials Linked to HCV Spread in Clinic
An outbreak of hepatitis C virus among four patients at a Los Angeles pain clinic in September 2022 likely was caused by improper use of needles and multidose vials of local anesthetic.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Must Overcome Deeply Held Dogma
Antibiotic therapy is steeped in dogma from case-series studies conducted in the 1940s and 1950s, which generated “low-quality” but persistent evidence before the era of widespread clinical trials, Emily Spivak, MD, said at the 2023 conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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CMS Ends COVID Shot Mandate for HCWs
On Nov. 4, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began requiring healthcare workers to receive at least the initial series of COVID-19 vaccine. After considerable hue and cry — marked by lawsuits and resignations — the requirement was officially rescinded on June 5, 2023.
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APIC Supports Ending CMS Vaccine Mandate
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology supported the end of mandated COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers and suggested adding two key hospital infection risks as quality indicators.
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FDA Approves New COVID Vaccine for Fall
COVID-19 advisors to the FDA voted unanimously to approve a new monovalent vaccine for the coming fall containing the currently predominant omicron subvariant XBB.1.5.
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Walk! A Long-Term Observational Investigation of Knee Osteoarthritis
An observational study of more than 1,000 individuals aged 50 years and older with knee arthritis revealed that regular walking for exercise correlates with fewer reports of new knee pain and slower disease progression, as verified by radiographic evidence at eight-year follow-up.