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Health department rules are broadening the scope of mandatory influenza vaccination policies, even as critics assail the policies as punitive and not science-based.
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About one-third of health care workers fail to get their annual flu shot. But look behind those numbers and youll find the true disparity: Barely more than half of long-term care workers received the flu vaccine last year, while the rate for hospital employees reached an all-time high of 77%.
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When a coronavirus recently caused two cases of severe respiratory illness in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, it was hard not to think of the challenging and deadly experience with another coronavirus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.
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The most dangerous thing some of your employees may do each day is just sitting at their desk. Sedentary behavior long hours of sitting can increase metabolic and cardiovascular risks, even in someone who gets regular exercise on most days.
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Flexibility will be the guiding principle in upcoming recommendations on health care workers who were vaccinated against hepatitis B as infants.
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Heres a safety equation that doesnt compute well: A high risk of injury with a low awareness of hazards.
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One of the most challenging of The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals in recent years, at least according to those trying to comply with it, is the goal dealing with medication reconciliation.
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Academic detailing a way of teaching novel concepts one on one started as a way for pharmaceutical and medical device companies to quickly disseminate information about new drugs and devices by having individual physicians spread the word among their peers.
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It's 44 pages of questions about infection control procedures from injections and hand hygiene to sharps safety and personal protective equipment and it's coming to your hospital soon.
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A prenatal care quality initiative at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, NY, has achieved significant improvement in the 11 adverse outcome measures followed via modification of the Adverse Outcome Index (MAOI), according to a study published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality.
