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STOP MRSA: PD helps fight MRSA
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Monday, March 23, 2009. PD helps fight MRSA. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Plexus Institute (Plexus) today announce results from an analysis of a multifaceted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevention program that employed positive deviance (PD), a novel approach to social and behavioral change, to trigger significant reductions in MRSA incidence ranging from 26 to 62 percent at participating hospitals. Read more at plexusinstitute.org. MRSA Links and Blogs.
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STOP MRSA: MRSA on CBS Evening News
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Sunday, March 22, 2009. MRSA on CBS Evening News. Jasper Palmer, an escort servicve worker at Albert Einstein Medical Center demonstrates how to safely and efficiently remove the gowns and gloves worn while caring for patients in isolation because of contageous infections. His method also reduces trash volume. Doctors and nurses tell how they used Positive Deviance working together to protect patients from MRSA infections. Read the complete story at cbs.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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STOP MRSA: Superbugs and Antibiotics: A Deadly Dance
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Friday, April 17, 2009. Superbugs and Antibiotics: A Deadly Dance. Clostridium difficile, a contagious and potentially deadly pathogen, isn't just increasingly resistant to antibiotics. It's often triggered by antibiotic treatment. An article in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. Describes the bacterium, also known as C-diff, as a gram positive. An April 14 story in The New York Times. Released in November 2008, reported the C-diff incidences rate is between 6.5 and 20 times greater than previ...
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STOP MRSA: Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009. From Congressional Testimony by Richard Besser, Acting Director, CDC. Sub-Committee: Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies. CDC and its partners have translated successful pilot projects at the local level into regional and ultimately national implementation programs. CDC funded and collaborated with the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Medical Center to prevent MRSA. Strategies. These and other prevention implementation examples demonstrate the sa...
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Complexity Matters: "Crowdsourcing" and Crisis Mapping: Technological Ingenuity Makes it Happen
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Friday, May 29, 2009. Crowdsourcing" and Crisis Mapping: Technological Ingenuity Makes it Happen. After the disputed election of President Mwai Kibaki. A self-described geek and power networker who grew up in Kenya and Sudan, tells the story in a TED interview. Which means testimony in Swahili, has simplified technology so that any one can use it, and it takes advantage of what Hersman calls the “default device of Africa”, the mobile phone. Some 59 percent of the world’s cell phones...Ushahidi uses crowd...
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STOP MRSA: House Staff Gym Disinfected After MRSA Report
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Thursday, April 16, 2009. House Staff Gym Disinfected After MRSA Report. From NBC4 in Washington, DC -. The [U.S.] House of Representatives staff gym got some special attention after an employee caught MRSA. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Preventing MRSA transmissions and infections is the goal of the PD/MRSA Prevention Partnership. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection. MRSA Links and Blogs. Our 2nd annual Nursing "On the Edge" conference!
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STOP MRSA: May 2009
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Sunday, May 3, 2009. Oprah's Dr Oz on MRSA. Dr Oz discusses MRSA on a recent Oprah show. See the MRSA safety tips on the Oprah web site. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Preventing MRSA transmissions and infections is the goal of the PD/MRSA Prevention Partnership. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection. MRSA Links and Blogs. Our 2nd annual Nursing "On the Edge" conference! Overcoming Resistance : Stories of an Innovative Approach to MRSA Prevention.
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STOP MRSA: March 2009
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Monday, March 23, 2009. PD helps fight MRSA. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Plexus Institute (Plexus) today announce results from an analysis of a multifaceted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevention program that employed positive deviance (PD), a novel approach to social and behavioral change, to trigger significant reductions in MRSA incidence ranging from 26 to 62 percent at participating hospitals. Read more at plexusinstitute.org. Sunday, March 22, 2009.