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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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The TB doctor stood and made her plea. Annual fit-testing is a waste of time and resources, she said. She and her staff dont even wear masks and they dont become infected, the doctor added.
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Boosting health care worker flu vaccination has been tough during a vaccine shortage. But commitment to this goal hasnt waned for two hospitals that are launching mandatory vaccination programs.
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Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC, isnt satisfied with a 48% reduction in needlesticks or a 53% decline in the recordable injury rate. In fact, Self Regional has raised the bar much higher than that. Our overall goal is to be safest hospital in the nation, says Mary Margaret Jackson, CPHQ, director of Performance Outcome Services.
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Another vaccine is on the horizon for health care workers this time to protect them and their patients from a troubling resurgence of pertussis, the whooping cough illness that is particularly dangerous for young infants.
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Epidemiology; Laboratory Diagnosis/Testing; Clinical Findings; Treatment/Prophylaxis; Prevention
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This years flu vaccine shortage failed to budge the nations health care workers from their typically dismal rate of vaccination. About 43% of health care workers with direct patient care responsibilities received the vaccine, which is similar to that of prior years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.
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Shortage of influenza vaccine may continue into the 2005-2006 influenza season. As of late February, it was unclear whether Chiron Corp. of Emeryville, CA, would be able to resolve manufacturing problems in time to produce influenza vaccine by next fall. Chiron was one of the two major suppliers of flu vaccine in the United States.
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New highly accurate rapid HIV tests are reshaping the way hospitals are handling bloodborne pathogen exposures.
