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Having made infection control and patient safety top priorities in recent years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is now taking on the thorny issue of flu vaccinations for health care workers in a new standard that becomes effective next year.
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Hospitals have begun offering pertussis vaccines to their employees in an effort to protect vulnerable patients from a disease that is most contagious in its early stages, when it may go undetected.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon issue new guidelines on multidrug resistant pathogens that include a more aggressive approach to the controversial issue of active surveillance, Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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With a growing knowledge about the risk of infections and patient safety hazards such as medication errors, patients are becoming health care's new partners in prevention. Driven by consumer advocacy groups and the patient safety movement, the age of the empowered patient is at hand.
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What is the role of raloxifene for the treatment of osteoporosis and breast cancer prevention? Raloxifene is a selective estrogen-receptor modulator similar to tamoxifen.
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The cardiovascular system is one of the principal targets of thyroid hormone.
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An impressive team of authors from seven European countries and the United States conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature on the risks and side effects of low-dose corticosteroids in the treatment of chronic rheumatoid arthritis.
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The two non-sequential tracings in the Figure were interpreted as showing sinus tachycardia interrupted by runs of VT (ventricular tachycardia). Do you agree?
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Defining hypogonadism (HGO) remains a remarkably difficult challenge. The 'normal' range for testosterone (TES) in adult males is typically 350-1050 ng/dL.