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A new virulent strain of Clostridium difficile rapidly continues to emerge in both the United States and Canada, infectious disease physicians reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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Sixteen people including one who died acquired hepatitis C virus at three different clinics in Maryland after being injected with a contaminated radionuclide solution used in cardiac imaging, an epidemiologist reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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The Joint Commission is applauding the public release of information on hospital clinical performance by the Hospital Quality Alliance. The measures used to produce this information meet the highest contemporary standards for reliability and validity.
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Federal counterterrorism officials are warning about a disturbing pattern of incidents in which people tried to gain access to hospitals by posing as surveyors from the Joint Commission.
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Two separate outbreaks among frail infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) were linked to workers who were chronic carriers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
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Whether its rationing scarce medical supplies or placing patients in isolation, ethical dilemmas in infection control frequently pit the needs of the one against the protection of the many.
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Nesiritide, Scios' intravenous recombinant form of human B-type naturetic peptide, has been widely used for the treatment of congestive heart failure in hospitalized patients.
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In this study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Duckro and colleagues carried out a careful molecular epidemiologic study of the transmission of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) to the hands of health care workers from both intact skin areas of VRE-colonizes patients and various environ mental surfaces in the patients vicinity.