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In an era of patient safety, the author urged national expansion of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System. Despite its flaws and limited scope, the NNIS system may be a model for patient safety data collection.
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The public health response to SARS has been strikingly rapid on many fronts, but a global pandemic of a new infectious disease still is a real possibility, the author warns.
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To identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in ambulatory care settings, targeted screening questions concerning fever, respiratory symptoms, close contacts with a SARS suspect case patient, and recent travel should be included at triage or as soon as possible after patient arrival, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends.
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Five health care workers in the United States have contracted suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but timely and thorough infection control precautions appear to be holding the emerging infection at bay in the United States.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that it is receiving anecdotal reports of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) being transmitted to health care workers performing aerosol-generating procedures on patients with SARS.
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In a special report on infection control and the environment of care, a Joint Commission publication cited the following suggestions as key points and checklists regarding infection control and the environment of care.
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Given recent events from emerging infections to the threat of bioterrorism, infection control professionals likely will be prepared for unannounced visits from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. They cant afford not to be.
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The purpose of this pre- and post-intervention observation study was to evaluate the effect of an educational initiative on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rate. The educational program was directed toward respiratory therapists and critical care nurses. The patient population consisted of those developing VAP during a two-year period.