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The world is on pandemic watch, with the prevailing public health fear that a currently circulating avian influenza A (H5N1) will mutate with a human strain of influenza and become transmissible from person to person.
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Arguing that the vast majority of hospital infections are preventable, the former lieutenant governor of New York is warning that nosocomial infections could be the "next asbestos" in terms of legal liability.
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Joint Commission Resources (JCR) a division of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has collaborated with a leading national infection control group to publish a workbook.
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Having made infection control and patient safety top priorities in recent years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is now taking on the thorny issue of flu vaccinations for health care workers in a new standard that becomes effective next year.
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Hospitals have begun offering pertussis vaccines to their employees in an effort to protect vulnerable patients from a disease that is most contagious in its early stages, when it may go undetected.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon issue new guidelines on multidrug resistant pathogens that include a more aggressive approach to the controversial issue of active surveillance, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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With a growing knowledge about the risk of infections and patient safety hazards such as medication errors, patients are becoming health care's new partners in prevention. Driven by consumer advocacy groups and the patient safety movement, the age of the empowered patient is at hand.
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In a selected population of patients with known COPD who were hospitalized with acute worsening of respiratory symptoms but did not have usual signs of an infection or other specific process, 25% were found to have pulmonary embolism.
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In a prospective, observational study of 444 patients, there were no cases of symptomatic pulmonary embolus, and postphlebitic syndrome occurred infrequently.