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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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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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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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Synopsis: Active, prospective laboratory-based surveillance of community-onset staphylococcal skin and soft-tissue infections at an Atlanta hospital found that 72% were caused by MRSA.
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The federal government's pandemic influenza plan lacks urgency in the area of vaccine development, which must be the linchpin to any public health response, two leading infectious disease groups warn.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is embroiled in a legal battle with the American Nurses Association (ANA) over the issue of hospital staffing levels.
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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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Pregnancy is a prothrombotic state which is rarely associated with ischemic arterial stroke. However, when a stroke occurs, especially in later pregnancy, the options for therapy may be limited.
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Time to primary PCI is strongly associated with mortality risk and is important regardless of time from symptom onset to presentation and regardless of baseline risk of mortality.
