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The editors do us a fascinating and frightening favor by reprinting this historical firsthand account by a physician-in-training facing the 1918 flu pandemic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
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Perception may be as important as reality when it comes to preventing needlestick injuries to health care workers. The more workers perceive that their facility has a "culture of safety," the less likely they are to sustain a needlestick, reports Scott Grytdal, MPH, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Planning and effective delivery of care in outpatient settings is critical to the nation's pandemic flu preparedness, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states. Though a physician's group recently questioned the adequacy of HHS planning for nonhospital settings, the HHS does have some guidance for outpatient care.
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The limited consideration for treating patients outside of hospitals and the lack of guidance to nonhospital health care providers is the "greatest weakness" of the federal government's pandemic influenza plan, a leading physician group charges.
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Infection control professionals are facing an unprecedented wave of legislative and regulatory activity as individual states and federal agencies move beyond demands for data disclosure and actually threaten to dictate clinical practice.
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Do long-acting beta agonist inhalers increase the severity of asthma? Yes, according to the results from a large meta-analysis recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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"As many as 98,000 deaths per year are due to errors in hospital care.1" ... "A RAND Health study found that only 54.9% of patients received recommended care.2"
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Barotrauma to the paranasal sinuses may cause sudden and severe headache during airplane travel.