Articles Tagged With: APIC
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APIC Issues Call to Action Against Antivaccine Movement
The antivaccine movement is lobbying state legislatures to widen exemptions against childhood school immunizations and other mandates. As infection preventionists, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has taken on the fight.
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Dolan Takes Helm as APIC Meets in Charlotte
As APIC assembles thousands of infection preventionists in Charlotte, NC June 11-13 for its annual conference, an IP with 20 years experience in the rapidly changing field will deliver the 2016 presidential address.
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APIC, CDC defend efforts in light of Tribune report
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APIC and SHEA may hold joint conferences
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Managing pain takes a partnership between patient and case manager
An estimated 50 million Americans some of them your patients live with chronic pain caused by disease, disorder, or accident, according to the American Academy of Pain Management. -
AHRQ: Good news, bad news on gender discrepancies
Although there are signs of improvement in some conditions, differences in the quality of health care provided to men and women continue to persist, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHQ). -
Condoms prevent HPV in sexually naïve women
The debate surrounding the relative merits of abstinence and fidelity vs. condom use (as if the two were mutually exclusive) remains a hotly contested issue, at least in the United States, where it has even spilled over into U.S. international family planning policy. -
Drug Criteria & Outcomes: Drugs that harm bugs and the liver?
Antibiotics are one of the most abundantly prescribed medications in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. From treating a simple infection to a life-threatening one, antibiotics decrease morbidity and mortality in every patient population. -
Varicella-Zoster Virus Vaccine (Zostavax)
Herpes zoster results from reactivation of latent varicella-zoster virus (VZV) residing in the sensory ganglia of the cranial and spinal dorsal root ganglia. -
ED patients unsure about waiving consent
A recent study suggests that emergency medicine patients may not have a high level of acceptance of the practice of providing an exemption to informed consent for research involving emergency medical settings.