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A retrospective study was conducted on members of one family following the deaths of a 15 year old boy and his 13 year old sister. Airway, CSF and serum samples were collected from the two fatal cases. Serum was collected from the three remaining ill siblings and both parents.
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In this issue: Drug shortages; metformin and cancer prevention; migraine prevention guidelines; and FDA actions.
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Ray and colleagues examined the risk of cardiovascular death among patients 30 to 74 years of age enrolled in the Tennessee Medicaid program that had been prescribed azithromycin between 1992 and 2006.
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has created a website with a wealth of tools to help hospitals set up the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP).
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It is almost surreal that I' ve been in infection prevention and control (IP&C) since January 1990.
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It began as an infection control nightmare in New Hampshire, but it didn't stop there. A medical technician who worked in the cardiac catheterization lab in Exeter Hospital in Nashua was charged with diverting drugs and reusing the syringes on patients.
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The successful use of checklists to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) has been highly publicized, in part because of the sheer novelty of using a simple solution to solve a highly complex problem.
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In the age of safer needles, vaccination and prophylaxis, the risk of hepatitis B among health care workers has dropped dramatically, from a high of about 12,000 cases a year in the 1980s to 203 reported acute cases from 2005 to 2010.
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Meet Christie Chapman, BSN, RN, CPAN. A California hospital infection preventionist for scarcely more than a year, she is plenty smart enough to recognize the truth when she reads it. As in the quote above from a blog by an IP with more than three decades of experience.
