[…] hand cleaning. The percentage score reports how often HCW clean their hands when required to do so. The health authorities do not all measure the compliance in exactly the same way (e.g. self -auditing versus dedicated auditors); however, all au thorities are measuring the same thing. How are we doing? The overall hand cleaning compliance was 83% in quarter 2 (Q 2) of fiscal year 201 4/201...
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[…] hand cleaning. The percentage score reports how often HCW clean their hands when required to do so. The health authorities do not all measure the compliance in exactly the same way (e.g. self -auditing versus dedicated auditors); however, all health authorities are measuring the same thing. How are we doing? The overall hand cleaning compliance was 82% in quarter 3 (Q 3) of fiscal year 201 4/201...
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[…] hand cleaning. The percentage score reports how often HCW clean their hands when required to do so. The health authorities do not all measure the compliance in exactly the same way (e.g. self -auditing versus dedicated auditors); however, all health authorities are measuring the same thing. How are we doing? The overall hand cleaning compliance was 83% in quarter 4 of fiscal year 201 4/201 5, which...
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[…] Hand Hygiene Working Group of British Columbia October 2015 Why are we measuring hand c leaning compliance? Every year, more than 200,000 patients get infections while receiving healthcare in Canada, resulting in more than 8,000 deaths . These infections can easily be transmitted among patients, healthcare workers (HCW) , and visitors by direct person- to-person touch or by touching contaminated shared surfaces . Proper hand hygiene can...
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[…] the PICNet’s Surveillance Steering Committee and Provincial Hand Hygiene Working Group Communications Sub -committee. Hand cleaning compliance in acute care facilities, Q2 of 2015/2016 Prepared by the Provincial Hand Hygiene Working Group of British Columbia December 201 5 Why are we measuring hand c leaning compliance? Every year, more than 200,000 patients get infections while receiving healthcare in Canada , resulting in more than 8,000 deaths...
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Do your staff know the four moments for hand hygiene? .This may be easier to remember as “Clean your hands before and after contact with the patient or patient environment.” Two important points: 1. Although the provincial hand hygiene compliance rate is an impressive 88% after patient/environment contact, the before rate is only 78% – which is below the target rate of 80%. Remind your staff, cleaning their hands BEFORE contact with the...
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Do your staff know the four moments for hand hygiene? .This may be easier to remember as “Clean your hands before and after contact with the patient or patient environment.” Two important points: 1. Although the provincial hand hygiene compliance rate is an impressive 88% after patient/environment contact, the before rate is only 78% – which is below the target rate of 80%. Remind your staff, cleaning their hands BEFORE contact with the...
[…] recall alert on this. The FDA has updated its June 1, 2016 Safety Communication to provide new information about Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera) infections associated with the use of the LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH) Stӧckert 3T Heater-Cooler in U.S. patients who have undergone cardiothoracic surgeries. This communication also contains updated recommendations to help prevent the spread of infection related to the use of these...
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[…] recall alert on this. The FDA has updated its June 1, 2016 Safety Communication to provide new information about Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera) infections associated with the use of the LivaNova PLC (formerly Sorin Group Deutschland GmbH) Stӧckert 3T Heater-Cooler in U.S. patients who have undergone cardiothoracic surgeries. This communication also contains updated recommendations to help prevent the spread of infection related to the use of these...
[…] Dr. Jerry Tokars, Influenza Division This is a 3-dimensional illustration showing the different features of an influenza virus, including the surface proteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). See PHIL 17346, for this image where the descriptive text has been removed. Following influenza infection, or receipt of the influenza vaccine, the body’s immune system develops antibodies that recognize, and bind to “antigenic sites,” which are regions found...
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