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We are proud to announce the winners of our second annual Infection Control Innovation Awards. Sponsored by Hospital Infection Control, the 2002 awards focused on a single theme: Prevention Pays!
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Infection control professionals should track these performance indicators to ensure compliance with new hand hygiene guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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A critical new weapon is available in the struggle to deliver appropriate and timely post-exposure prophylaxis to health care workers who have percutaneous blood exposures.
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In hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios, surgical patients experience higher risk-adjusted 30-day mortality and failure-to-rescue rates (deaths following complications), the authors found.
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Concerned about rising vancomycin resistance and a growing patient population in dialysis, public health officials are taking a hard look at infection control problems in the setting.
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Infection control professionals had a median salary in the $50,000-$59,000 bracket, but budget-crunched hospitals held most ICPs to raises at l% to 3%, according to the 2002 salary survey by Hospital Infection Control.
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In response to strong protests from infection control professionals, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has dropped plans to reduce the number of infection control standards in 2004, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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A new survey of various health care providers who give medications through injections reveals that 3% of anesthesiologists admit reusing the same needles and syringes on multiple patients, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.
