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During last year's H1N1 influenza pandemic, health care workers inadvertently transmitted flu to their co-workers, in some cases triggering a hospital-based outbreak.
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In 2003, Jeanine Thomas of Hinesdale, IL, founded the MRSA Survivors Network, the organization which successfully lobbied to have Oct. 2 declared World MRSA Day and October World MRSA Month. A tireless activist for MRSA awareness, Thomas recently sat down with Hospital Infection Control & Prevention for the following interview.
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The following are personally submitted accounts to the MRSA Survivors Network (http://www.mrsasurvivors.org) Though edited slightly for spelling and grammar, they are left in the words of the patients.
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In numbers whose precise appearance veils the reality that they are estimates and underestimates at that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 94,360 people in the United States acquired invasive MRSA infections in 2005 and 18,650 of them died.
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The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The guideline features a series of evidence-based clinical recommendations developed by an expert task force.
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While considering the "community" in community-engaged research may add new issues for IRBs to consider, they're not in this job alone.
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When Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City began looking at implementing palliative care and end-of-life services, the case management department was the appropriate place to start, says Anita Bell, RN, MEd CHPN, palliative care coordinator at the 508-bed facility.
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In recent years, cardiac devices have become a factor in end-of-life decision-making for ethics consultants. When do you turn off a cardiac device that may keep a patient alive after, for example, the patient has become comatose?
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