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One Hospital, One Heart, Let’s Get Together to Control VRE (Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci)
Authors – Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA Associate Professor of International Health and Director of Operations Research International Vaccine Access Center Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Think when another hospital in a region has a vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) bacteria problem that it’s their problem and not your hospital’s problem? Think again. Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentTime for change? Lessons from a trial of the Dialysis Station Routine Disinfection Checklist
Authors – Peggy Bushey RN, CDN, Renal Services Linda Fosher, RN, Renal Services Sally Hess MPH, CIC, Infection Prevention Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington Vermont The risk of transmitting bloodborne pathogens, including hepatitis C virus, in a hemodialysis unit can be high due to environmental contamination with blood. Our clinic recently participated in a “test Read More >
Posted on by Leave a commentProper Environmental Disinfection: A Basic Patient Safety Expectation
Author – Priti Patel, MD, MPH CDC, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Imagine walking into an operating room and seeing staff disinfect the room and open up sterile equipment for the next surgery while a patient is still on the table completing their procedure. Most of us would find this strange and unacceptable. Yet it Read More >
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