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Despite your best efforts to promote sharps safety, some of your health care workers still use conventional needles and sharp devices that lack an integral safety feature.
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In its first two seasons of use, the intranasal influenza vaccine FluMist did not lead to "unexpected serious risks," ...
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The nation's only hospital to mandate influenza vaccination of health care workers achieved a 96% vaccination rate, despite a court ruling that exempted unionized nurses from the "fitness for duty" requirement.
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Hospitals will perform fewer tuberculosis screening tests but may provide more training for TB skin test placers and readers ...
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This excerpt from the 2005 TB guidelines explains the new recommendations regarding risk assessment and TB testing: ...
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Health care workers with positive TB skin tests frequently decline treatment for latent tuberculosis infection, putting themselves, their co-workers, and patients at risk, tuberculosis experts say.
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Avian influenza challenges our usual assumptions about how influenza is spread and how to protect health care workers from infection.
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Infection control practices for pandemic influenza are the same as other human influenza viruses ...
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Mandating seasonal health care worker flu vaccinations -- an issue so contentious it led to open revolt in the first U.S. hospital that tried it ...
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In requesting input whether it should develop a standard requiring seasonal flu immunization, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) made the following key points: ...
