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JCAHO lobbies for sign-off on patient safety law; Measles hits record low, imported cases remain; Public comment sought on CDC vaccine safety efforts.
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Pipeline or wipeout? The antibiotic era is at risk; Childs play: Finding Bacillus on Barney; Prepare your facility for influenza season.
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End-stage renal disease is a devastating condition that, according to the United States Renal Data System, plagued approximately 406,000 individuals in the United States in 2001 and is projected to increase to a prevalence of approximately 725,000 by 2010. Furthermore, it is a major public health issue, given the overall poor outcomes and high costs for this chronic condition.
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Emerging data in elderly patients indicate that a stealth epidemic of hepatitis C and hepatitis B virus may be going undetected in ambulatory care settings, Hospital Infection Control has learned. If the data are verified, the infectious risk extends to all patients in ambulatory care, as elderly patients are essentially a surrogate marker for health care transmission due to their lack of other risk factors.
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A recent article by investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reiterated the following basic infection control measures to prevent patient-to-patient transmission of bloodborne pathogens in ambulatory care settings.
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Be proactive and get ready for an onslaught of questions from critical inquiries to the out-of-the-blue variety if youre preparing for a visit from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, advise two infection control professionals who recently went through the process.
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The following questions were among those asked during two recent surveys by the Joint Commission. The questions do not represent any kind of official survey, but were simply noted anecdotally by two infection control professionals as the questions were asked to them and other staff members.