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The Joint Commission has reiterated its standards require a clean hospital environment in light of comments and criticism at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's April 16th hearing on "Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs): A Preventable Epidemic."
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The Joint Commission continues to emphasize the patient safety issue of medication administration, warning that children are at particular risk of harmful medication errors.
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This past winter, influenza vaccine expert Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, got the flu. Yes, he had the flu vaccine. But this year, the vaccine was not a good match with the prevailing strains.
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Make sure you know the measles immune status of your employees and have ready access to the information.
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The seemingly benign use of a checklist to ensure infection control measures are followed during a clinical procedure erupted in controversy recently when a federal agency questioned whether one such program fell into the category of human research.
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Nurses face myriad chemical hazards that may raise their risk of cancer, asthma and reproductive problems.
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Sixty hospitals were among the 14,000 employers nationwide who received cautionary letters from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for high rates of employee injury.
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The Institute of Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) How-to Guide: Improving Hand Hygiene, was developed in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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If an influenza pandemic strikes, public health officials may not know enough about influenza transmission and respiratory protection to adequately protect health care workers.
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Five years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) warned that patient safety relies on a safe nursing work environment, including adequate staffing, limiting shifts to no more than 12 hours, and a better organizational climate.