Investigation of potential HIV transmission to the patients of an HIV-infected surgeon
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The risk of an HIV-infected surgeon transmitting the virus during invasive surgical procedures may be extremely low if recommended infection control practices are followed. A study examined the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS among patients of an HIV-infected surgeon who practiced primarily at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Among 1,131 patients who underwent invasive surgical procedures between 1984 and 1990, 101 had died, 119 had no known address, 413 had known HIV antibody test results and 498 did not respond to inquires. Transmission of HIV to any of the patients did not occur during 369 hours of invasive surgical procedures. None of the patients were found on any reported AIDS case registries. One patient newly diagnosed with HIV infection was probably infected in 1985 during a blood transfusion. The HIV-infected surgeon voluntarily stopped practicing surgery in Mar 1990 after developing Kaposi's sarcoma.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1993
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Academic Relationships With Industry: A New Model for Biomedical Research
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Safeguards are proposed to ensure that academic medical centers can continue to engage in medical research without compromising their integrity or creating a financial conflict of interest. This could involve creating separate research institutes as well as an organization that could hold equity and receive royalties from the sale of any products.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
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Why have academic medical centers survived?
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Reimbursement uncertainty, federal research policy, ineffective internal decision-making, and clinical quality are concerns of the academic medical center (AMC) due to the competition from community hospitals and physicians. Details of the desirable changes made to advocate the academic medical center are discussed.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2005
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