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Clinical Trials Often Exclude Women, Even When There Could Be Compelling Benefit
Clinical trials often exclude pregnant women, citing additional risks. However, women almost never are asked what they think about participating in those studies and the risks. This is an issue some researchers are working to correct.
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Revisiting the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ in New Zealand
It’s astonishing in retrospect that women in New Zealand diagnosed with an increasingly clear precursor to cervical cancer were left untreated and uninformed in an unethical study that continued for two decades.
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Evidence That Working ‘Bare Below the Elbows’ Protects Patients
A study using two mannequins and a surrogate DNA marker for Clostridium difficile showed that workers in long sleeves were more likely to contaminate a subsequent patient than workers wearing short sleeves.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Requires Hospitalwide Commitment
Hospitals can play an important role in addressing one of the most urgent public health problems today: the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. An effective antibiotic stewardship program requires significant commitment from top executive levels down to the bedside.
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Strategies for Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment
Healthcare organization leaders can do a great deal to prevent sexual harassment — or, at least, to stop it as soon as it occurs. Sexual harassment prevention starts with an organization’s leadership paying attention and emphasizing the importance of workplace safety.
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Nurses, Other HCWs Report High Levels of Sexual Harassment
For the past year, sexual harassment has made headlines, sometimes daily, as celebrities and politicians deal with accusations. Research shows that nurses and other healthcare workers also experience sexual harassment, abuse, and bullying on the job.
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NIOSH Issues PPE Conformity Assessment Document
Employee health professionals questioning whether their supplies of personal protective equipment are up to date with current performance standards may want to consult new guidelines issued by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Rare or Unreported? HCW Injuries During Emergency Codes
When a “code blue” is called for immediate patient resuscitation, healthcare personnel rush to the bedside to instigate life-saving measures that may be physically demanding and go on for a prolonged time. How often are healthcare workers injured when performing a code, and what are the primary risks?
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Opioid Fears Recall Beginning of HIV Epidemic
The national opioid epidemic has triggered an irrational fear that is reminding clinicians of the initial reactions to HIV in the 1980s. Part of this is being driven by the new powerful synthetic opioids, such as carfentanil, making their way to the street in a variety of illicit substances.
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Vaccine May Not Cover H3N2 — Is It Time for Universal Flu Shot?
A potential mismatch between the current flu vaccine and a strain of H3N2 influenza that has caused severe infections in the Southern Hemisphere suggests this may be a harsh season in the United States and underscores the need for new vaccine production methods, public health officials emphasized in a recently published commentary.