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The Joint Commission has launched a new web-based patient safety initiative that continues its strong emphasis on infection control.
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An impending visit by surveyors from the Joint Commission improved hand hygiene compliance rates, which remained higher than baseline even after the inspection, an epidemiologist reports.
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In January 2005, a patient was diagnosed by Markowitz and colleagues at Aaron Diamond Research Center with primary HIV infection with 3-drug-class-resistant HIV-1 (3DCR HIV), who had sustained rapid depletion of CD4+ lymphocyte count and rapid clinical progression to AIDS.
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A new virulent strain of Clostridium difficile rapidly continues to emerge in both the United States and Canada, infectious disease physicians reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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Sixteen people including one who died acquired hepatitis C virus at three different clinics in Maryland after being injected with a contaminated radionuclide solution used in cardiac imaging, an epidemiologist reported recently in Los Angeles at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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The Joint Commission is applauding the public release of information on hospital clinical performance by the Hospital Quality Alliance. The measures used to produce this information meet the highest contemporary standards for reliability and validity.
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Federal counterterrorism officials are warning about a disturbing pattern of incidents in which people tried to gain access to hospitals by posing as surveyors from the Joint Commission.
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Two separate outbreaks among frail infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) were linked to workers who were chronic carriers of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
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Whether its rationing scarce medical supplies or placing patients in isolation, ethical dilemmas in infection control frequently pit the needs of the one against the protection of the many.