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Promising New Weight Loss Drug?; Treating Shift-Work Disorder; Another Flu Vaccine Shortage?; FDA Actions
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Over the past decade, there has been growing concern about the magnitude of antimicrobial resistance, particularly among gram-positive organisms such as penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, methicillin-resistant staphylococci, and vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
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A quality improvement method using standardized measures to track hospital performance for pneumonia care and other conditions was strongly validated in a study by researchers at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations are putting an unprecedented emphasis on infection controls most frustrating problem hand washing.
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As patient safety becomes more of a mainstream movement, the issue of disclosing and apologizing for infections, medical errors, and other adverse events is coming to the fore. No longer is the preferred strategy to see, hear, and speak no evil.
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The importation of tuberculosis into the United States via a group of screened refugees underscores how difficult it is to eliminate tuberculosis in the United States when some 2 billion people are infected globally.
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Synopsis: In a meta-analysis of studies assessing methodologies for the diagnosis of intravascular device-related bloodstream infections, paired quantitative blood cultures drawn from the catheter and a peripheral site are the most accurate. However, numerous other methods, including quantitative catheter culture, semiquantitative catheter culture, and differential time to blood culture positivity have sufficient sensitivity and specificity to be clinically useful.
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Even as tuberculosis threatens to take an insidious new appearance in the United States, draft federal guidelines for TB control in health care settings remain mired in controversy and bureaucratic limbo.