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A new blood test for tuberculosis infection could revolutionize the method for screening health care workers and lead to a reduction in false positive results.
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Despite legal protections included in the Homeland Security Act, hospitals still face workers compensation liability and possibly other legal exposure from the smallpox vaccination of health care workers, according to lawyers who specialize in the health care field.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is partnering with the University of Tennessee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America to conduct a four-year study under an Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research-funded grant project entitled Trial to Reduce Antibiotic Prophylaxis Errors (TRAPE).
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In an unusual direct appeal to health care facilities, the chairman of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is asking for reports of nosocomial infections that result in patient deaths or permanent loss of function.
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Employers will need to record hearing-loss cases in a separate column on the OSHA log beginning Jan. 1, 2004, the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) announced.
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A tuberculosis standard requiring annual respirator fit-testing and skin testing is all but dead as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) removed it from the proposed-rule stage.
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As hospitals prepare to vaccinate hundreds of health care workers, they face a host of opposing pressures.
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Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic was its patterns of spread. Sometimes, few people became infected, despite exposure. In other cases, dozens of people became ill.
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In the past outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), some visitors, patients, and employees were exposed to the virus before anyone was aware that another patient or visitor was infected.
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Health care workers with pneumonia may be the sentinels for a new outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Faced with the dilemma of identifying the first suspected cases of SARS amid a backdrop of widespread, seasonal respiratory illness, public health authorities are urging hospitals to monitor their employees health.