What goes around ... hospitals urged to assess their TB prevention plans
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The spread of tuberculosis (TB) in hospitals is increasing as a problem, and many hospitals are making efforts to improve their infection control programs. HIV-positive patients with weakened immune systems account for a large percentage of those infected. New York, NY, reported 950 cases of TB in 3rd qtr 1992. It is estimated that it costs up to $300,000 to treat each TB patient. In addition to TB strains that respond to existing medications, a number of drug-resistant strains have been reported. Suggestions for preventing these nosocomial infections are given.
Publication Name: Hospitals
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0018-5973
Year: 1993
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HELP on the way: clinical system lays framework for CPR
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Intermountain Health Care Inc has developed a centralized administrative and financial system for the health network's 33 clinics, 24 hospitals and other ancillary facilities. Intermountain plans to invest $50 million in software and hardware to develop an information system (IS) that will carry fully redundant voice and data network information through microwave communications and over high-speed lines. The IS infrastructure also includes a computer-based patient record program and employs a Health Evaluation through Logical Processing system.
Publication Name: Hospitals
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0018-5973
Year: 1993
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As hospital drug budgets soar, pharmacy's role is being rewritten
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Hospital pharmacists play increasingly broader roles in administrative and patient care decisions as drug costs escalate. Between 1987 and 1990, average annual pharmacy expenses per occupied bed rose 29%. In response, hospital pharmacists spend increasingly more time providing information about the appropriateness and cost-effectiveness of drug therapies to physicians and pharmacy and therapeutics committees.
Publication Name: Hospitals
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0018-5973
Year: 1992
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