Infection Control for Physician Practices Archives – September 1, 2007
September 1, 2007
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How safe are your facility’s infection control and injection practices?
News this past summer about a hepatitis virus C (HCV) cluster in New York City at outpatient facilities was a startling reminder of how ambulatory sites should monitor infection control practices by both staff, contracting physicians, and others. -
Hepatitis outbreaks linked to poor infection control
There have been a number of hepatitis outbreaks in U.S. ambulatory settings in recent years, including one in 2002 that involved 100 hepatitis infections caused by one certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) who reused needles and another outbreak of 99 hepatitis C cases also was caused by reused syringes. -
TN officials close MRSA death investigation
Public health investigators have found that the ambulatory clinic health care worker in Tennessee who died of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was likely an isolated case. -
IC practitioner develops tool for ambulatory sites
Acute care settings have long had tools for use in improving infection control, but often these tools are not a good fit for ambulatory sites. -
Alcohol hand rubs cause less irritation than washing
As alcohol-based hand rub dispensers become ubiquitous at hospitals and are growing in popularity at outpatient facilities, health care professionals will be happy to learn that theyre not as harsh on the skin as feared.