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A mid some high-profile outbreaks of hepatitis C, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has put health care facilities on notice that inspectors will zero in on infection control practices and observe the practices of health care workers.1
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Using a blood test to screen health care workers for tuberculosis can cut your false positives by two-thirds, but it is critical to evaluate the numerical result on the test, according to members of a national TB testing task force.
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In the age of safer needles, vaccination and prophylaxis, the risk of hepatitis B among health care workers has dropped dramatically, from a high of about 12,000 cases a year in the 1980s to 203 reported acute cases from 2005 to 2010. Routine HBV vaccination of infants, which began in 1991, promises to make transmission from blood and body fluid exposures even rarer.
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As the nation faces the largest outbreak of pertussis in 50 years, the rate of vaccination of health care workers languishes at about 20%.
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It began as an infection control nightmare in New Hampshire, but it didnt stop there. A medical technician who worked in the cardiac catheterization lab in Exeter Hospital in Nashua was charged with diverting drugs and reusing the syringes on patients.
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Lack of reporting of infectious disease exposures may also result in a lack of treatment. And that can have serious, even deadly, consequences.
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When patient access leaders had to select a subject for the first e-learning module developed at St. Luke’s University Health Network in Allentown, PA, they chose computer downtime procedures
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Since copayments first were collected in Cambridge (MA) Health Alliance’s three emergency departments (EDs) in October 2008, collections have increased 140%, totaling $173,000 in fiscal year 2009 to an expected $416,000 in fiscal year 2012.
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A patient recently registered at Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital had just lost his job and employer-sponsored insurance, and he was under the mistaken impression that COBRA coverage was automatic.