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If a member of the voluntary medical staff is exposed to a communicable disease while caring for a patient at your facility, do you have any responsibility and what is it?
Loyola University Medical Center endured its share of objections from healthcare workers who did not want to be vaccinated against influenza. But it has found a way to convince nearly everyone on staff to get the flu shot.
Hospitals should continue to conduct routine risk assessments to determine how well their infection control strategies are working before rushing to adopt a highly touted and possibly costly new protocol, says a member of the Board of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control...
Some healthcare-associated infection (HAI) rates have gone down in the past few years, according to the 2011 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections Standardized Infection Ratio Report.
Hospital leadership must ensure that the infection control program had adequate access to the resources needed to support the functions of infection control and prevention. Name these three sources.
On November 6, 2000, the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was signed into law, and since then, there has been a significant decrease in sharps injuries. However, a coalition called Safe in Common is working hard to reinitiate safety efforts around sharps, believing that the healthcare...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 4
We’ve often heard that the building up of resistances to antibiotics by bacterial infections is a growing (and creeping) risk, but England’s top medical official had quite a bit to say on it in a recent statement. Read on.
It isn't every day top health officials in the Obama administration and two national professional societies host an hour-long national webinar to praise your hospital for reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in its intensive care units, and even send a U.S. Department of...