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Smallpox vaccinations slowed while some hospitals completed or halted their programs and others re-screened employees for cardiac contraindications. Yet concerns over cardiac problems did not stop some states from moving forward with Phase 2.
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These are vaccine-related events as of April 18. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 created anxiety among employee health professionals (EHPs). It shouldnt. Privacy and confidentiality are issues that have long been respected in occupational health.
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In a special report on infection control and the environment of care, a Joint Commission publication cited the following suggestions as key points and checklists regarding infection control and the environment of care.
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This article outlines symptoms of suspected and probable cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Here is the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions guidance for the management of exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome in health care settings.
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With guidelines that are much weaker than the rule it once proposed, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommended that manual lifting of [nursing home] residents be minimized in all cases and eliminated when feasible.
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How can you select the equipment that will be right for your hospital? Feedback from employees and from other facilities that have used the equipment will provide valuable information. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration also suggests some questions to ask the vendor.
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More hospitals than ever have received warning letters from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) because they have lost-time injury and illness rates that are twice the national average for all industry.
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Two deaths and six other heart-related problems among civilian smallpox vaccinees added to uncertainty as hospitals added more restrictions to the already lackluster vaccination program. One military vaccinee also died of cardiac arrest five days after vaccination.
