Showing posts with label Preventable Infections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preventable Infections. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011

Be your special needs child's advocate during air travel | Best Family Travel Advice

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In today’s world of poor customer service and inconsistent policies, self-sufficient travel is the best. It may sound harsh, but nobody els...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Keep Pets Out of Your Bed? - Dr. Weil

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Q Keep Pets Out of Your Bed? What's this I hear that allowing pets to sleep on your bed puts you at risk ...

GYT | Where music artists and celebrities meet to spread the word about getting tested | GYT I It's Your Sex Life

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 Know  Be a Know-it-All. Get the facts about STDs and Testing: what, why, where, how and how much. Don't stress, just test! GO »...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Not Running a Hospital: Painfully slow

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You can already imagine the responses. "That's just in North Carolina." "Our patients are sicker." "There a...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in US Meat and Poultry

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Abstract We characterized the prevalence, antibiotic susceptibility profiles, and genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus among US meat and p...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Hospital scrubs and sandwiches should not mix | Reporting on Health

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You probably have been to a restaurant near a hospital (or a café inside a hospital) and seen a doctor, nurse or medical assis...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Hospital Acquired Infections Becomes A Leading Cause In Patient Deaths | OneMedPlace

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Patients today are between a rock and a hard place because when they get sick a hospital may be the last place they want to go. Hospital Ac...
Friday, April 1, 2011

MRSA Protocols- Are They Being Used In Practice? | Registered Nurse Blog

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Posted: April 2nd, 2011 In Advance For NPs and PAs, a March 9, 2011 article was featured on the following study of protocols used ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Hospital worker had deadly blood infection

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All Children's Hospital has contacted all the families whose children were exposed to an outpatient therapist who died Monday from a c...

How safe is your hospital? - chicagotribune.com

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Just before it was disclosed that a medical error at the University of Chicago led to the death of James Tyree, a well-known financier and...

The Epidemic of Preventable Medical Harm, HealthcarePSI.org

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The Centers for Disease Control reports that 1.7 million people who enter the hospital this year - for any reason - will contract a Hospita...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Man's death tied to salmonella in Rhode Island

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An elderly man who tested positive for salmonella has died, according to Rhode Island officials investigating an outbreak of salmonella tha...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Admitting harm protects patients - Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun

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As Nevada legislators debate this week whether to require hospitals to publicly report when they harm patients , they could learn a lot fro...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

How Vacuuming, Using a Sponge, and Other Daily Habits Can Make You Sick

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They say that home is where the heart is. But what you may not know is that it's also where 65% of colds and more than half of food-bor...
Monday, March 21, 2011

World TB Day, March 24, 2011, March 21, 2011 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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World TB Day March 24, 2011 Statement of Christine F. Sizemore, Ph.D., and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. National Institute of Allergy a...

Education Resources, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc APIC |

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APIC works to provide information to both the general public and healthcare professionals. The brochures on this page are regularly rev...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions

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An average 200-bed hospital could save approximately $2 million annually if it eliminates common but high-cost hospital-acquired conditions...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Sponge Count Off, Patient Develops Sepsis, Surgeon Blames Nurse.

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