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Kathy Warye, CEO of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), is something of a quick study. Facing what she recalls as "a steep learning curve" six years ago when she joined APIC as executive director, Warye is now being recognized as one of the top leaders in health care.
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I've been doing this since January 1990 and in many ways it seems like yesterday. When I share this information with others I can't decide if their body language and comments are motivated by shock or they are simply impressed with someone surviving that long. Most days I don't ask for clarification.
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Health care remains in the spotlight of an energized U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration as the agency explores new regulations related to infectious diseases and requirements for injury and illness prevention programs.
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Faced with a critical federal report on the lack of progress against healthcare associated infections, the nation's leading infection prevention groups find themselves in the thankless position of having to challenge the methodology of the report without appearing to be in denial about HAIs.
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Infection control interventions appear to be making a difference against central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), which have declined 18% nationally in a recent data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Commentary: There are approximately 16,000 hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) and > 29,000 solid-organ transplants performed in the United States each year.
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If your research site has not tackled the issue of optimizing its workflow and reducing the number of study delays, then now is the time to do so.
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There are invariably new and unexpected problems when research involves the Internet. And just when investigators and IRBs find a way to resolve some of these issues, new ones appear as the technology rapidly evolves.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) issued on May 26, 2010, a notice about its expectations with the completion of grants awarded from the funding provided by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA).