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It is important to investigate the reasons for nonadherence to hand hygiene guidelines before deciding on one or more improvement strategies, according to a new report by The Joint Commission and its partners. It also is useful to examine the organizational context of health care delivery, which may facilitate or inhibit adherence.
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The Joint Commission has issued a major new document on the difficult issue of assessing hand hygiene compliance by health care workers.
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Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are clearly on the radar of Kathleen Sebelius, the new Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She recently called for action to prevent HAIs in praising two new HHS reports on the quality of health care in America.
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The simultaneously obtained lead II and lead V1 rhythm strip seen above was interpreted as showing atrial fibrillation with a rapid ventricular response. Do you agree?
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The ACCORD trial has been newsworthy in the last several months primarily due to the early results of increased cardiovascular events associated with very tight glucose control.
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Everolimus is the newest oral kinase inhibitor approved for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma.
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Almost one-fifth of Medicare patients who were discharged from a hospital were rehospitalized within 30 days, and about a third were rehospitalized within 90 days. Most of these readmissions were not planned.
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We don't have the slightest idea whether evidence of gallbladder dyskinesia should warrant cholecystectomy or not.
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Once-a-week rosuvastatin therapy was well tolerated in patients with a history of adverse events to one or more statins and led to significantly improved lipoprotein changes.