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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, individuals who have any of the following conditions, or live with someone who does, should NOT get the smallpox vaccine unless they have been exposed to the smallpox virus.
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Question: What standard is most frequently cited for improvement during hospital surveys?
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San Francisco General Hospital's smallpox survey for ED personnel.
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Most patients who visit emergency departments (EDs) arent there for emergencies, according to a new report by the Evanston, IL-based health care information company Solucient.
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As an emergency department (ED) leader, you should do the following to improve your staffs ability to avoid conflicts with each other and patients and to manage those effectively if they occur, says Tracy Sanson, MD, FACEP, assistant medical director for the department of emergency medicine at Brandon (FL) Regional Medical Center.
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The controversial vaccination of health care workers for smallpox is here, with emergency department (ED) staff among the first to be inoculated. For the ED manager, your nightmares may include staff who are unable or unwilling to have the vaccine, staff who become ill after having the vaccine, and a situation worse than an unannounced accreditation survey: a smallpox outbreak.
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As hospitals struggle to comply with aspects of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), one thorny issue is whether patients can be transferred from an ICU of one hospital to the emergency department of another hospital, based on an accepting physicians request.
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Despite measures taken following the resurgence of TB cases in the late 1980s and early 1990s, many health care workers still poorly understand respiratory isolation procedures, says Kevin P. Fennelly, MD, MPH, researcher at the Center for Emerging Pathogens of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark.