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Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Health: Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies to Combat HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries

The sixth millennium development goal, adopted by the United Nations in 2000, aims to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Since the millennium development goals were set, the incidence of HIV infection and associated mortality have continued to climb in low and middle income countries,...

Tags: strategy, infection, developing country, income, health care, analysis, vertical industries, benefits, healthcare, enterprise software, software, human resources

White papers 2005-11-10

DNA Vaccines: Designing Strategies against Parasitic Infections

This white paper document emphasizes on the fact that the complexity of parasitic infections requires novel approaches to vaccine design. The versatility of DNA vaccination provides new perspectives. This review discusses the use of prime-boost immunizations, genetic adjuvants, multivalent vaccines and codon optimization for optimal DNA vaccine design against parasites.

Tags: biomed central, dna, vaccine, infection, biotechnology, healthcare, strategy

White papers 2004-12-03

Reducing Surgical Site Infections Through Six Sigma & Change Management

In addition to providing obvious benefits for the patient, reducing surgical site infections offers a number of advantages for the hospital as well in conserving valuable resources - money, supplies, time, and labor - that can be applied in other care areas. Without the added length of stay, the hospital...

Tags: process improvement, leadership, healthcare, tools & techniques, management, quality, business operations, it operations, ge medical systems, infection, tqm/six sigma/iso 9000, six sigma, change management, site infection

White papers 2004-08-16

Healthcare-Associated Infections and Length of Hospital Stay in the Medicare Population

This study uses cross-sectional analysis of huge Medicare hospital discharge databases to test the hypothesis that hospitals with longer inpatient average lengths of stay ALOS will have a higher healthcare associated infection HAI rates. This article offers hypotheses on the casualty of the ALOS-infection rate correlation and suggests ways to...

Tags: healthcare, health care, medicare, hypotheses, hospital, infection

White papers 2004-06-01

Guidelines for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee

This paper updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC "Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia and other severe, acute lower respiratory tract infections in acute-care hospitals and in other health-care settings (e.g., ambulatory and long-term care institutions) and...

Tags: vertical industries, long-term care, health care, infection, benefits, healthcare, enterprise software, software, human resources

White papers 2004-03-26

Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health: Care Settings 2003

This report consolidates previous recommendations and adds new ones for infection control in dental settings. Recommendations are provided regarding educating and protecting dental health-care personnel; preventing transmission of blood borne pathogens; hand hygiene; personal protective equipment; contact dermatitis and latex hypersensitivity; sterilization and disinfection of patient-care items; environmental infection control;...

Tags: benefits, healthcare, security, enterprise software, software, human resources, infection, vertical industries, health care

White papers 2003-12-19

Healthcare IAQ: Guidance For Infection Control

Indoor-air-quality IAQ challenges outnumber all others in the health-care industry. Unfortunately, the cost-conscious "powers that be" have failed to make the management of critical infection-control systems a top priority. This article provides guidance in the assessment of infection-control risks so that maintenance practices for health-care IAQ can be prioritized. Making...

Tags: health care, infection, human resources, software, enterprise software, security, healthcare, benefits, vertical industries

White papers 2001-04-01

Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals: Infection Control and Use of Antibiotics

Antimicrobial-drug resistance in hospitals is driven by failures of hospital hygiene, selective pressures created by overuse of antibiotics, and mobile genetic elements that can encode bacterial resistance mechanisms. Attention to hand hygiene is constrained by the time it takes to wash hands and by the adverse effects of repeated hand...

Tags: infection, healthcare, hospital

White papers 2001-03-21

Additional Resources

Landmark Study Leads to Concern Over the Safety and Cleanliness of MRIs

Peter Rothschild, M.D., renowned Radiologistand MRI expert, has released the ground-breaking paper, recently publishedon AuntMinnie.com, titled "Preventing Infection in MRI: Best Practices forInfection Control in and Around MRI Suites." This article expands on theissue that MRIs are often not being properly cleaned, thus leading toconcern over Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus...

Articles 2008-08-19

SinoFresh® Nasal Spray Kills MRSA 'Super-Bug' in Live Noses

SinoFreshR Passes First Key Test for Potential to Control 'Super-Bug' MRSA VENICE, Fla., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SinoFresh HealthCare, Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD: SFSH) announced preliminary results today from a successful in vivo pilot study indicating that its patented SinoFreshR nasal spray was shown to be...

Articles 2008-08-19

SinoFresh(R) Nasal Spray Kills MRSA "Super-Bug" in Live Noses

SinoFresh HealthCare, Inc. (OTCBB: SFSH)announced preliminary results today from a successful in vivo pilot studyindicating that its patented SinoFresh® nasal spray was shown to beuseful in controlling the MRSA "super-bug" in the nasal passages. Thisstudy utilized a recognized scientific model intended to demonstrateSinoFresh® nasal spray's ability to kill MRSA hiding...

Articles 2008-08-18

FirstDoNoHarm.com to Help Healthcare Practitioners and Executives Reduce the Human and Financial Toll Exacted by Hospital-Acquired Conditions

Web Site Provides Prevention, Intervention and Risk-Reduction Resources as Healthcare Industry Prepares for October 1, 2008, Enactment of New CMS Reimbursement Rule for HACs RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- FirstDoNoHarm.com has launched new content and resources to support healthcare practitioners and executives preparing for enactment of CMS reimbursement...

Articles 2008-08-18

Meritech's CleanTech® ELF and CleanTech® IC receive NSF International Approval

GOLDEN, Colo. -- Meritech, Inc., a division of Resurgent Health and Medical and a leader in automated handwashing and sanitizing technology, announces that the newest CleanTech ELF Extremely Low Footprint and CleanTech IC Infection Control have received NSF International NSF approval. NSF International, The Public Health and Safety...

Articles 2008-08-05

Ecolab Declares Regular Dividend

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Board of Directors of Ecolab Inc. declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per common share, to be paid October 15, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 16, 2008. Ecolab has paid cash dividends on its common stock...

Articles 2008-08-01

Surgical Errors Cost Almost $1.5B a Year

Preventing medical errors that occur during or after surgery could save lives and almost $1.5 billion a year, according to U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ study. The researchers analyzed data on more than 161,000 patients in employer-based health plans who underwent surgery between 2001 and 2002....

Articles 2008-07-28

Covidien Launches Contrast Delivery System with RFID

Ground-breaking system helps reduce the risk of potentially life-threatening medical errors, infections in CT imaging procedures DENVER -- Covidien (NYSE: COV, BSX: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced the U.S. commercial availability of Covidien Imaging Solutions' contrast delivery system with radio-frequency identification RFID technology....

Articles 2008-07-28

Cepheid GeneXpert® System and Xpert™ MRSA Selected for up to 11 Victoria, Australia Hospitals in Rollout of 'Start Clean' Strategy

State of Victoria, Australia 'Start Clean' Strategy Requires Public Reporting of HAIs in all 76 Public Hospitals by End of 2009 SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cepheid today announced that the State of Victoria has selected Cepheid's GeneXpertR System and XpertTM MRSA test for screening...

Articles 2008-07-28

GE Healthcare to Acquire Vital Signs, Inc., Expanding GE's Monitoring, Anesthesia and Respiratory Care Offerings

CHALFONT ST. GILES, England & TOTOWA, N.J. -- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and Vital Signs, Inc. (NASDAQ:VITL) announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for GE to acquire Vital Signs. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Vital Signs will...

Articles 2008-07-24

STERIS Corporation Announces Quarterly Dividend Increase of 33%

MENTOR, Ohio, July 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STERIS Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a 33% increase in its quarterly dividend to $0.08 per common share. The dividend is payable September 11, 2008 to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 14,...

Articles 2008-07-24

U.S. Clinicians Indicate a Strong Need for New Tools to Combat Sepsis

Survey shows hospital physicians, pulmonary and critical care clinicians, and researchers also concerned about overuse of antibiotics DURHAM, N.C., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- bioMerieux recently conducted two surveys, fielded during conferences of the American Thoracic Society and Society of Hospital Medicine, that show how hospitalists, pulmonary and...

Articles 2008-07-24