Articles Tagged With: surveillance
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FDA Greenlights First U.S. Duodenoscope With Disposable Elevator Piece
This innovation reduces the number of parts that must be cleaned between uses.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Multi-Modal Interventions for Controlling CRE: Which Is Best? Antimicrobial Resistance Genes — in the Arctic; Updated PEP Guidelines for Hepatitis A Vaccine
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Providers Facilitate Transmission of Resistant Organisms; The Time Is Now — Stop CRKP
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Lyme Disease in the United States — Good News, Bad News
The incidence of Lyme disease appears to have stabilized in states with known high incidences of the infection, but there is evidence of geographic expansion into neighboring states.
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Clinician Alert: STIs Hit High-water Mark
More than 2 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported in the United States in 2016, the highest number ever, according to the latest surveillance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Check-in kiosks keep expansion 'FTE neutral'
The biggest challenge regarding the implementation of registration kiosks at the Medical Center of Central Georgia (MCCG) in Macon was "just trying to arrive at the place where our organization was ready to present self-service." -
NIOSH: Monitor HCWs with chemo exposure
With an ever-expanding range of hazardous drugs, hospitals must identify employees at risk and conduct medical surveillance at least annually, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). -
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