Hospital Infection Control & Prevention
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Live and let live: Why trying to ‘kill the bug’ only spurs more antibiotic resistance
CDC: C. diff and CRE are urgent threats -
Debate: Should infected surgeons disclose status?
There is a striking disconnect between patients and infectious disease clinicians on the controversial issue of whether surgeons and other health care workers infected with bloodborne pathogens should disclose their status before performing invasive procedures. -
Flu: 41% of nursing home workers unvaccinated
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C. diff Transmission: It’s Complicated
Most cases are not linked to other patients -
Norovirus vaccine shows efficacy in early trials
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Failure to communicate enabled HCV+ drug thief
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CDC recommendations for providers with HBV
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for chronically HBV-infected health-care providers and students include the following key measures: -
CDC: HBV carriers pose little threat if managed
Some foreign-born medical and dental students with chronic hepatitis B virus are being subjected to Draconian policies or rejected from schools and institutions, though in most cases they can be managed with very little threat to patient safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. -
Union sues to stop RI flu shot mandate
The toughest flu vaccine mandate in the country faces a legal challenge from the nations largest union representing health care workers. -
Provider-to-patient HBV transmission raises issue of chronically infected health workers
A recently reported case of hepatitis B virus transmission from a chronically infected surgeon to as many as eight patients underscores the need for providers to know their HBV status and seek the counsel of an expert review panel if they perform invasive or so called exposure-prone procedures, public health officials emphasize.