- 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)
Friday, April 20, 2012
Hospital related infections
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