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A recent review of the literature evaluating methods to decrease preterm birth in twins has shown little or no benefit of bed rest, cerclage, or 17 alpha-hydroxy progesterone.
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The installation of copper objects and surfaces in patient rooms reduced infections by two major nosocomial pathogens by more than half, suggesting the antimicrobial metal could provide a powerful yet completely passive weapon for prevention.
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Some health care employers are failing to take even the most basic steps to protect against bloodborne pathogen exposures, and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is beginning to take notice.
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With strong evidence emerging that infection control interventions and pristine catheter care could prevent thousands of bloodstream infections annually in hemodialysis settings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging freestanding and hospital-based dialysis centers to adopt its core collaborative measures nationally.
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Whether through high-tech innovation or sheer elbow grease, reducing the bioburden of a host of pathogens in the health care environment is taking on unprecedented importance in infection prevention.
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The use of a dedicated cleaning team to literally wipe out Clostridium difficile in occupied patient rooms lowered infection rates and left 93% of high touch surfaces negative on C. diff cultures, says Curtis Donskey, MD, staff physician at Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and an author of the study.
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Bacteria were present on the cell phones of all hospital clinicians studied, with potentially pathogenic microorganisms isolated from 29% of them. Contamination with pathogens was found more commonly with smart phones than with non-smart phones, and by multivariable analysis no other factor was associated with this difference.