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		<title>Hand washing, gloving contribute to high rates of dermatitis in health care workers</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2013/03/17/hand-washing-gloving-contribute-to-high-rates-of-dermatitis-in-health-care-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care workers may be suffering in silence from work-related dermatitis, much of it linked to frequent hand washing. Cases of work-related dermatitis are about 100 times greater than the rate reflected in federal data, and health care workers are...]]></description>
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		<title>Henry the Hand. He&#8217;s cool, clean and may just save a life now and then</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Sawyer, MD, is something of a voice in the wilderness when it comes to spreading the gospel of hand hygiene, but he assures me with an easy laugh that he won’t let the issue drive him crazy like Ignaz Semmelweis...]]></description>
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		<title>Contaminated sinks: Sometimes the solution is part of the problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A hospital outbreak of Klebsiella oxytoca was linked to contaminated sinks which were used for both hand hygiene and disposal of patient body fluids, investigators reported. K. oxytoca is primarily a health care–associated pathogen acquired from environmental sources. During...]]></description>
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		<title>Do the right thing: Change culture to support HCWs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health care workers who want to “do the right thing” must be supported by a culture change that recognizes infection prevention as a system problem that warrants a system solution, said Elaine Larson, PhD, professor of pharmaceutical and therapeutic Research...]]></description>
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		<title>`Grime Scene Investigators&#8217; in South Carolina</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2011/05/06/grime-scene-investigators-in-south-carolina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It is encouraging to see the spontaneous, creative combustion that seems to be occurring everywhere in the area of hand hygiene improvement. The bane of infection prevention is no longer accepted with unwashed hands thrown in the air. Rather,...]]></description>
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		<title>FDA cracks down on MRSA product claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not aware of any study that shows that Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is more difficult than susceptible staph strains to deactivate and remove by hand washing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that health care workers...]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Check: Joint Commission lowers hand hygiene standard</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2011/04/15/reality-check-tjc-lowers-hand-hygiene-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2011/04/15/reality-check-tjc-lowers-hand-hygiene-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The touch of death in any given moment in a hospital may come from a ministering angel, literal “care” givers with a special place for patients in their hearts and transient colonies of some pan-resistant pathogen on their hands. “Wash ‘em,”...]]></description>
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		<title>The Achilles hand of infection prevention</title>
		<link>http://hicprevent.blogs.ahcmedia.com/2011/03/02/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems only appropriate to begin HICprevent – Hospital Infection Control &#38; Prevention’s new blog site – with a message near and dear to our hearts and hands. This Aug. 13th will mark 146 years since Ignaz Semmelweis – the...]]></description>
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