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Syphilis Making Comeback, Gonorrhea More Treatment Resistant, LSUHSC's Martin Says
Dr. David H. Martin, Professor and Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, updated reporters and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases on sexually transmitted diseases in the United States on July 22, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington , DC. Dr. Martin, whose presentation was called, Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Neither Gone nor Forgotten, revealed significant information about STDs including Chlamydia trachomatis, gonorrhea, syphilis, and a relatively new STD, Mycoplasma genitalium.
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The Cost Of Autism In The UK Is More Than $41 Billion Every Year
Research published this week in the journal Autism, published by SAGE, estimate the annual costs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to be more than ÷£27 billion a year. The costs of supporting children with ASDs were estimated to be ÷£2.7 billion per year, ÷£25 billion each year for adults. The findings were presented at the Autism & Employment Workshop at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Potential Prenatal Origins For Poor Sleep In Children
A study, "Prenatal Origins of Poor Sleep in Children," in the Aug.1 issue of the journal SLEEP found that alcohol consumption during pregnancy and small body size at birth predict poorer sleep and higher risk of sleep disturbances in 8-year-old children born at term. Findings are clinically significant, as poor sleep and sleep disturbances in children are associated with obesity, depressive symptoms, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and poor neurobehavioral functioning.
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ISMP Launches First Self Assessment Of Automated Dispensing Cabinet Safety

More than 80% of hospitals across the U.S. have implemented automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) as an important part of their drug distribution system, making the evaluation of practices and policies surrounding this technology an essential step in ensuring patient safety. To help meet healthcare organizations" growing need for assistance in this area, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has introduced the first Medication Safety Self Assessment® for Automated Dispensing Cabinets. The self-assessment is based on guidelines developed by a national forum of practitioners and vendors with expertise in the safe use of ADCs, which was convened by ISMP. The self assessment is uniquely designed to help the nation"s hospitals evaluate their automated dispensing cabinet safety practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and compare their experience with that of hospitals of similar size and demographics. The assessment contains 12 core elements that support the safe use of ADCs in all clinical settings. Many of the elements represent system improvements and safeguards that ISMP has recommended in response to analysis of medication errors reported to the ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program, and problems identified during onsite ISMP consultations with hospitals Healthcare organizations can download a PDF copy of the self assessment from the ISMP website at: http://www.ismp.org/selfassessments/ADC/survey.pdf. Since safe use of ADCs involves collaboration between many different disciplines and departments, hospitals are being asked to convene multidisciplinary teams to provide a wide range of perspectives for the most complete data set possible. ISMP strongly urges hospitals to use the following process to complete the ADC self assessment: - Establish a multidisciplinary team. Recommendations for team composition and procedures are contained in the self assessment document. - Assess organizational use of ADCs through a consensus vote from all team members, after thoroughly investigating the level of implementation of each core element. - Confidentially submit data to ISMP. ISMP is a federally certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO). When the self assessment is used for quality improvement purposes and patient safety activities and data are submitted to ISMP, they are considered a patient safety work product and therefore privileged and confidential. Deadline for submission is December 31, 2009. - Compare experience with the aggregate experience of demographically similar hospitals - national data will be available for comparison at the end of the submission period. - Document progress toward improvement by regularly using ISMP"s tool to re-assess the organization"s ADC use. ISMP conducted landmark medication safety self assessments for hospitals in 2000 and 2004. It also has created separate self assessments for medication safety in physician practices and community/ambulatory pharmacies, and the specific areas of bar coding and antithrombotic therapy. As with its other self assessments, ISMP will use the findings to develop additional educational res and tools to assist healthcare organizations in improving their medication safety policies and procedures. ISMP"s national ADC forum was made possible by support from CareFusion (formerly Cardinal HealthCare), McKesson, and Omnicell. Ameri Bergen, Cardinal Healthcare, and Omnicell sponsored development of the ADC self assessment. For a copy of the ISMP ADC self assessment, visit http://www.ismp.org/selfassessments/ADC/survey.pdf. For a copy of ISMP"s ADC guidelines, visit http://www.ismp.org/Tools/guidelines/ADC_Guidelines_Final.pdf. More information on ISMP"s other self assessments can be found at http://www.ismp.org/selfassessments/default.asp. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)


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