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An outbreak of hepatitis C virus (HCV) that recently sparked a massive testing effort affecting 40,000 patients in Las Vegas comes as the largest, latest "look-back" in a series of ambulatory care exposures that shows no signs of stopping.
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The Southern Nevada Health District issued the following questions and answers after launching the largest patient look-back effort in history by contacting 40,000 patients potentially exposed to bloodborne pathogens in a Las Vegas endoscopy clinic:
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The Joint Commission has broadly expanded its emphasis on infection prevention in proposed 2009 patient safety goals that recommend specific strategies to fight a veritable "murderers' row" of health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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In what could be a boon for infection surveillance and treatment programs, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new rapid test for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that can identify the bug in two hours.
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The perception of health care risks motivates behaviors in health care workers as well as patients. Several years after the SARS outbreak in China and Hong Kong, Japanese industrial scientists found that health care workers had a high perception of risk for SARS manifest primarily by a desire to avoid patients. At the same time these workers had a low acceptance of risk and felt little personal control.
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Frequent hand washing appears to heighten the risk for irritant contact dermatitis in health care workers, particularly those genetically predisposed to the condition, investigators report.
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Trying to leverage federal reimbursement cuts into support and resources for ICPs, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has launched a series of educational initiatives in an ambitious follow-up to its ongoing efforts to eradicate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
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The Joint Commission's proposed 2009 National Patient Safety Goals include the following new emphasis on infection prevention:
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Surprising research results which have been widely misinterpreted as evidence that hand hygiene has little impact on infection rates more likely reveal that health care infections (HAIs) arise from complex causes and cannot be prevented by a single intervention, the author tells Hospital Infection Control.
