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Concerns regarding patient safety have produced numerous pieces of new legislation focused on infection control surveillance and reporting of antibiotic-resistant organisms in healthcare facilities nationwide.
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The Joint Commission has strongly endorsed recently issued compendium infection prevention guidelines, announcing that the condensed, actionable recommendations may become required as accreditation standards by 2010.
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Infection preventionists should continue to make patients their medical and moral compass amid a tightening regulatory environment that includes reimbursement reductions.
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The condensed guidelines in the recently issued compendium for six major infections emphasize administrative responsibility to provide the resources and infrastructure to make the prevention of health care-associated infections (HAIs) a reality. In this landmark new document at least, infection prevention really is everyone's business.
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With the recent release of landmark compendium guidelines for prevention of six major health care-associated infections (HAIs), the immediate question is whether these practical, "actionable" guidelines will result in real action.
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Enrollment into the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT), a five-year, $30-million National Institutes of Health-funded clinical study, has been stopped, according to Heartwire, a professional news service of WebMD.
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Goal: To assess the effect of Tai Chi Chuan (TCC) training on risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) in people with dyslipidemia.
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Early in 1992, two women in their 40s were treated for renal failure in a hospital in Brussels, Belgium. Both had been healthy and not recently taking any medications, although one had previously used a beta-agonist asthma inhaler for 8 years.