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Empowering nurses and other clinicians to speak up when they perceive a patient safety problem may be the most important component of emerging new programs designed to drive infection rates to zero, emphasizes Sara Cosgrove, MD, hospital epidemiologist at John Hopkins in Baltimore.
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Having worked with a "physician champion" and greatly lowered infection rates by adopting an industrial process model, an infection control professional has joined the chorus that say infections are not an inevitable byproduct of medical care.
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It may seem intuitive, even obvious to experienced ICPs, but acquiring an infection during hospitalization is about as bad as it gets for a patient. Even patients with a host of maladies that compromise their recovery fared significantly better in outcomes than patients who acquired infections.
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Health care-associated infections (HAIs) have traditionally been viewed with a certain air of epidemiological inevitability, seen in many cases as the unpreventable result of keeping very sick patients alive via invasive devices and other medical interventions.
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Although it is known that cigarette smoking is the most prevalent risk factor for lung cancer, other risk factors are important. It is notable that 10% of men and 20% of women with lung cancer never smoked, and that nearly half of patients are former smokers.
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Drug Labels A Prescription for Misunderstanding?; Beta-Blockers and Depression Unlinked?; FDA Actions
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The Non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase inhibitors (nnRTI's) including both efavirenz and nevirapine have intrinsic in vitro activity superior to all the other classes of antiretroviral agents. Clinical trials including patients who have been followed now for many years on efavirenz have demonstrated the durability, as well as potency, of these agents.