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Leadership support boosts flu vaccination
Can strong hospital leadership supporting flu immunization be as successful and less divisive as mandating the seasonal shots? -
NY flu reg enforcement largely falls to hospitals
Enforcement of a controversial regulation mandating flu shots for New York health care workers appears to fall primarily to hospitals and other health care facilities. -
Will NY flu shot mandate drive nurses from field?
A New York mandate that health care workers receive seasonal flu shots may drive nurses from the profession even as that state faces a nursing shortage, said Eileen Avery, MS, RN, associate director of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). -
Death of nurse sets ominous pandemic tone
In an case that sets an ominous tone for the resurging pandemic, a healthy 51-year-old oncology nurse who worked in Carmichael, CA, recently died of a coinfection with H1N1 influenza A and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. (MRSA). -
Primary Care Reports - Full September 1, 2009 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Pharmacology Watch
Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors, FDA Actions, and FDA Warnings. -
Reducing Polypharmacy: Prudent Prescribing in Primary Care
Polypharmacy is the simultaneous use of multiple medications. Many authors have defined polypharmacy as the simultaneous use of at least five or six medications. Others have suggested that polypharmacy should not be determined by the absolute number of medications, but rather the use of even a single medication that is not clearly indicated. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Primary Care Reports - Full August 1, 2009 Issue in PDF