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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted in England among 687 children 10-60 months of age with acute virus-associated wheezing compared a five-day course of oral prednisolone (10 m once a day for children 10-24 months of age and 20 mg once a day for older children) with placebo.
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It is no small sign of hard-earned wisdom that the mother who has lost a loved one to a health care-associated infection (HAI) doesn't want to be cast in angry hues, decrying the failure of a health system that took her 27-year-old son Josh along with some 100,000 other patients felled by infection in 2006.
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With more than 25 years experience as a critical care nurse, Barbara Jordan, RN, MSN, CCRN, could read the bleak signs and symptoms of the patient before her like a map to a destination she had been before.
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How do you know if your needlestick prevention program is working? A decrease in injuries is a good barometer but sometimes that could reflect a lack of reporting rather than an improvement in safety.
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Accurate microbiologic diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is problematic. Infecting organisms reside in a biofilm, and standard culture techniques appear to have suboptimal sensitivity.
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In a move that may clear the way for federal legislation aimed at preventing outbreaks of bloodborne diseases in ambulatory care, a broad-based coalition of patient safety advocates and health care groups has launched a national education campaign on needle safety.
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The Joint Commission and other national infection prevention groups made a point to include catheter-related urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs) traditionally considered a relatively benign adverse event in a recently issued compendium targeting the major health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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The recently reported rapid deaths of two patients infected with a new highly toxic staph strain suggests the deadly pathogen is emerging in the community and certainly will pose a threat to hospitals, a researcher tells Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to issue a fact sheet on what is currently known about Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and sexual transmission in the first quarter of this year, the agency announced.