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With hospital administrators a key target audience, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has slated a national infection control conference that will emphasize the importance of adequately funding an increasingly important program.
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Despite an ongoing flap between fire safety and infection control, the likelihood of alcohol hand hygiene products contributing to a fire appears to be exceedingly remote, the authors report.
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Media images to the contrary, a chemical terrorist attack may not be so obvious as people choking in a subway or being hosed down and decontaminated in the streets.
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In an unusual case with no obvious breaches in infection control, Group A Streptococcus was transmitted to a surgeon and scrub nurse after they performed a prolonged debridement procedure on a patient with necrotizing fascitis.
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Hospital-based health care workers should consider how patients with known or suspect severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) will be handled from the point of initial contact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises.
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Favoring old-school etiquette over universal masking, some clinicians are urging a common-sense appeal to patients to use tissues and block coughs and sneezes in case severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) makes an unwelcome return.
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The Joint Commission has created two options designed to address legal disclosure concerns related to its Periodic Performance Review (PPR). The PPR is an integral component of the Joint Commissions new accreditation process that debuts in 2004.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides the following answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA).
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Some of the key aspects of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2005 infection control standards are summarized here:
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Emerging infections, bioterrorism, and the patient safety movement are converging along with changes in the health care delivery system to reinvent the role of infection control. But the rising profile of infection control professionals is not necessarily lifting salaries along with it.