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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided examples of how to assess risk and determine if a health care setting should be classified as low or medium. Here are three excerpts from the draft TB guidelines.
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How hospitals test health care workers for tuberculosis infection would change fundamentally for the first time in 10 years under draft guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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With only one-third of priority groups receiving the influenza vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged midseason vaccination and expanded the groups eligible for vaccination.
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Industrial hygienists insist annual fit-testing is essential to the proper use of respirators. Infection control practitioners argue tuberculosis patients, once identified and isolated, pose little risk to health care workers. But perhaps they agree on one point: Hospitals are doing too much fit-testing.
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A reprieve from federal enforcement of annual fit-testing was greeted by some hospitals like a holiday present from Congress, but it has scarcely registered at other facilities.
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For the first time in more than 60 years, the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in Atlanta is hosting an independent conference distinct from the occupational medicine physicians in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Is your state next? Laws requiring disclosure of individual hospital infection rates are sweeping the nation. Four states Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and Missouri have passed infection rate disclosure laws, and 20 others have introduced bills.
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If youre looking for information on how your bloodborne pathogen exposures compare to other facilities, a new book offers a compilation of information.
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New highly accurate rapid HIV tests are reshaping the way hospitals are handling bloodborne pathogen exposures.