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Article: Healthcare's defensive line.(2004 Infection Control Guide)(Cover Story)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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2004 is shaping up to be a year of increasing standards in infection control. New outbreaks in SARS and other emerging contagions worldwide are a deadly reminder of the severity of infection control issues. As basic as a reemphasis on hand washing to complex epidemiology issues, infection control is expanding its presence throughout every area of the hospital. Not only are healthcare workers from every spectrum forced to play new roles in infection control; the responsibilities are spreading to patients, the government, healthcare products developers, information technology providers ... people everywhere must play a part.
With its updated 2005 "Surveillance, ...