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In requesting input whether it should develop a standard requiring seasonal flu immunization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) made the following key points:
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Aggressive LDL lowering with statins, so-called "very intensive statin therapy," leads to reversal of coronary atherosclerosis, according to a new study.
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Sports and recreation-related injuries commonly are seen in the offices of internists, family practitioners, and pediatricians. They may be the first physician to whom the injured athlete turns, or they may be referred from an urgent care or emergency department.
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Adherence to hand hygiene in long-term care facilities is alarmingly low, investigators reported recently in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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The fog of war is making it difficult to get a clear epidemiologic picture of why so many soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are developing highly resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections.
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Though a combination of contact and droplet infection control precautions are recommended in the federal influenza pandemic plans, questions remain about the possibility of airborne flu transmission.
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is deepening its collaboration with the National Quality Forum (NQF) in an effort to create performance measures to that can be used by health care facilities to publicly report infection information data.