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Hospitals face possible citation for failing to use a rapid HIV test after a bloodborne pathogen exposure, according to a letter of interpretation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Once again, a trendsetter in occupational health, California has created a draft standard on aerosol transmissible diseases that would allow biannual fit-testing of N95-filtering facepiece respirators until at least 2012 but would require the use of powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs) during high-hazard procedures.
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If you were frustrated by the slow delivery of influenza vaccine last fall, public health officials have a message for you: Get used to it.
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Hospitals are wrestling with the cost of complying with recent guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on pertussis vaccination of health care workers.
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The air is clear in public buildings, restaurants, and even many bars across America. So why should anyone light up even within a few steps of a hospital?
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The Joint Commission is trying to solve the Achilles heel of hand hygiene: monitoring compliance by health care workers.
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As part of an increasing emphasis on patient empowerment and education, infection control professionals have seen arcane terms such as "nosocomial" de-emphasized in favor of clearer language.
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Hospitals must act swiftly to protect health care workers from infectious diseases, even when the scientific evidence is unclear about transmission.
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When a day care worker reported to employee health at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, with a severe, spasmatic cough that had lasted more than two weeks, an employee health nurse immediately thought of pertussis.
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n extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is virtually untreatable and poses a threat to worldwide TB control.
