Friday, April 20, 2012

Hospital related infections

  • ATLANTA, April 19 (Reuters) - The United States is making progress in reducing the spread of infections to patients while they are in the hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its first ever state-by-state breakdown of health care-related infections. Oregons efforts appear to be ahead of the pack.
  • (Medford Mail Tribune)
  • Christopher, MD, from Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, said that the 25.
  • (Medscape News)
  • IV Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections Each year more than 500,000 patients in U.S. hospitals suffer from IV catheter-related blood stream infections and up to one in four patients die.
  • (PharmiWeb)
  • Just Manufacturing has been a leading manufacturer of hospital fixtures and now provides users must continue to follow all current infection control practices, including those practices related to cleaning and disinfection of environmental surfaces.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • "This just shows how many ticks are really out there," Woodward, Concord's Board of Health chairman, said on Tuesday night after a meeting at Emerson Hospital about ticks last 40 years or so.
  • (Abington Mariner)
  • Through dedicated and conscientious partnerships, we are well-positioned to make hospitals safer and extend the same gains to all places of care." Every day, approximately 1 in every 20 patients has an infection related to the patient's hospital care.
  • (Business Wire)
  • Each day, approximately one in every 20 patients has an infection related to the patient's hospital care, according to HHS. These infections cost the U.S.
  • (Nurse.com)
  • difficile are necessarily caused by, or directly related to, the infection. He allowed, however, that the hospital does have a problem that needs to be fixed.
  • (The Vancouver Sun)
  • Nanaimo numbers are unavailable, but a Nanaimo Regional General Hospital doctor found a way quitting after hospitalization for smoking-related illness. Dowell, 27, started smoking at 15.
  • (Calgary Herald)

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