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Blood Exposures Among Healthcare Workers

The Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP) is requesting information from occupational health professionals nationwide ...read more

Resources for Patient Safety

Every healthcare organization need supplies and tools to achieve high quality care, but patient safety resources can be a difficult goal to plan into ...read more

Clostridium difficile Infections

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) caused almost half a million infections among patients in the United States in a single year, according to a ...read more

Preoperative CHG Bathing

This report addresses patient skin cleansing with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) as an effective intervention in the arsenal against surgical site ...read more

Digital Summit: Healthcare Textiles

This digital summit will address proper healthcare textiles management from an infection prevention point of view, illustrate protocols for safe ...read more

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Radical Vaccine Design is Effective Against Herpes Viruses

Herpes simplex virus infections are an enormous global health problem and there is currently no viable vaccine. For nearly three decades, immunologists' efforts to develop a herpes vaccine have centered on exploiting a single protein found on the virus's outer surface that ...More
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Getting Back to Basics in the OR Through Evidence-Based Practice

Patient Safety Awareness Week, being celebrated March 8-14, 2015, is an excellent time to review current practice and identify weaknesses that need to be addressed. Nowhere is this more important than in the operating room (OR), where perioperative professionals and ...More
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A Multidisciplinary Process Drives Sharps Safety, BBP Exposure Prevention

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville, Tenn. is making strides in addressing exposure of healthcare personnel to bloodborne pathogens (BBPs) through not only using safety-engineered sharp devices (SESDs) and other safe practices such as double-gloving, ...More
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5 Must-Have Resources for Patient Safety in Hospitals

Every healthcare organization need supplies and tools to achieve high quality care, but patient safety resources can be a difficult goal to plan into a hospital budget. Though we tend to think of a hospital as the place where patients find care rather than dangers, patients ...More
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Scientists Discover New Tool for Detecting and Destroying Norovirus

Infection with highly contagious noroviruses, while not usually fatal, can lead to a slew of unpleasant symptoms such as excessive vomiting and diarrhea. Current treatment options are limited to rehydration of the patient. ...More
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Use of Hospital Staff ILI Absence for Enhancing Hospital Preparedness, National Surveillance

Early warning and robust estimation of influenza burden are critical to inform hospital preparedness and operational, treatment, and vaccination policies. Methods to enhance influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance are regularly reviewed. Drumright, et al. (2015) ...More
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More Than 23,000 Measles Cases Reported in WHO European Region in a Year

Between Jan. 1, 2014 and March 1, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) received notification of more than 23,000 cases of measles in the WHO European Region. The most affected country is Kyrgyzstan with more than 7,000 cases reported in just the first seven weeks of ...More
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10 Cases of MERS-CoV in Saudi Arabia are Reported to WHO

Between Feb. 23, 2015 and Feb. 25, 2015, the National IHR Focal Point for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of 10 additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection. Details of the cases are as ...More
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Parasite Infection Poses a Greater Risk for Children Under Age 5 in Africa

Children under the age of 5 living in sub-Saharan Africa are at greater risk than older children of developing a long-term parasitic disease, research suggests. Infants experience significantly greater exposure to the parasitic worms that cause the chronic disease ...More
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Healthcare Workers Recognized by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority

Eighteen Pennsylvania healthcare workers are being recognized by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority for their efforts to improve patient safety within their healthcare facilities. The healthcare workers had their photos and descriptions of their efforts highlighted ...More
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