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In this issue: Drug shortages; metformin and cancer prevention; migraine prevention guidelines; and FDA actions.
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To investigate the attitudes and practices of health care providers toward intrauterine device (IUD) use in nulliparous women, the authors performed a national survey of both office-based physicians and Title X health care providers from December 2009 to March 2010.
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For years, clinicians have been trying to find ways to predict shoulder dystocia (SD), a complication that can have serious consequences for some infants and, on occasion, for the providers who delivered these babies.
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The authors performed a randomized, single-blind trial of the effects of a paracervical block (PCB) or sham block on pain with cervical dilation and aspiration during first trimester abortion. Enrollment of subjects was stratified by gestational age (early: < 8 weeks, n = 60; late: 8-10 6/7 weeks, n = 60).
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The Veterans Health Administration has developed best practices in handling large-scale epidemiologic look-back investigations, including finding a way to explain a potential exposure of blood-borne viruses to a large number of people who likely were not impacted by the incident.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to develop an infection control survey slated for use in the nation's hospitals later this year, using expert feedback and "pre-testing" results from the field to create a 42-page tool that assesses a wide breadth of program issues.
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Recently I've chosen a major change in job responsibilities. For the second time I'm the sole Infection Preventionist (IP) for a facility, but this time the realm of 'Quality' is included, and my facility is a 32-bed surgical hospital including a four-bed ICU. It was time to challenge myself to keep learning new approaches to age-old problems surrounding patient safety. Talk about moving out of the comfort zone!