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A recent patient safety report by an Institute of Medicine committee in Washington, DC, includes the following true firsthand account of a staffing problem leading to a nosocomial infection.
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At least three similar but distinct strains of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are emerging in the United States, rendering common empiric therapy useless and causing aggressive skin infections, Healthcare Infection Prevention has learned.
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A nosocomial outbreak of a novel strain of strikingly resistant Acinetobacter baumanii led to two patient deaths before it was eradicated through strict isolation and environmental decontamination, an infection control professional reports.
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The Joint Commission provides the following answers to frequently asked questions about its 2004 patient safety goal to manage as sentinel events all identified cases of unanticipated death or major permanent loss of function associated with a health care-acquired infections:
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has issued new infection control standards for 2005, emphasizing at a conference in Chicago that hospital executives not ICPs are going to have to take ultimate responsibility for enacting them.
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Infection control is one of the key areas cited in a recent national report warning that nursing staffing problems pose a grave threat to patient safety.
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While the cases remain under investigation, the deaths of some children due to influenza this year may be linked to underlying infections with community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conceded.
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Faced with an infection threat to immunocompromised patients and an absence of clear public health guidelines, some hospitals are furloughing health care workers who receive the new live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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