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EPINet relaunch: New leadership, expanding mission to go beyond hepatitis, HIV exposures
The International Healthcare Worker Safety Center has made a dramatic transition to an independent non-profit center that is widening the net beyond bloodborne pathogens to include worker exposures to Clostridium difficile and MRSA.
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Healthcare workers on antibiotics at risk of Clostridium difficile
With C. diff at epidemic levels, workers may acquire the bug from patients if they take antibiotics that wipe out the commensal bacteria in the gut and open a path for the pathogen.
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Ebola, chronic PPE woes give OSHA momentum for infectious disease rule
Whether you are pro regulation or not, it is hard to imagine that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will find a better time than the present to issue its long-awaited infectious disease rule to protect healthcare workers.
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PPE use contaminates workers as training, compliance lax
Research spurred by the Ebola crisis continues to reveal that healthcare workers are poorly trained in the use of personal protective equipment, frequently contaminating themselves with pathogens that can endanger their personal health and subsequent patient contacts.
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Hospital Case Management 2015 Index
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Interdisciplinary Walking Rounds: A Key Strategy for Improving Case Management Outcomes – Part 1
This month we are going to focus on interdisciplinary rounds — more specifically, walking or bedside rounds. Bedside rounds have fallen in and out of favor over the years, but more recently have become increasingly popular.
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Do your duty: Report all infections
Two leading federal agencies are warning hospitals and other facilities that they can be fined and denied Medicare funds if they are caught intentionally underreporting healthcare-associated infections.
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Educational programs target gaps in knowledge at SNFs, LTACH
When nurses at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital began using videoconferencing to hand off patients to nurses in a post-acute facility, the hospital team noticed that some of the nurses in the receiving facility often had gaps in knowledge.
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Video handoffs cut readmissions from post-acute providers
The readmission rate for patients being discharged from Oregon Health & Science University Hospital to a skilled nursing facility have dropped from 26% to 12% among patients whose handoffs were handled via videoconferencing.
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Partnership increases contact between patients, home health nurses
UCLA Health has formed a partnership with three home health agencies that agreed to increase the number of times home health nurses interact with patients after they are discharged from the hospital to home with home health services.