Minimizing Healthcare Worker Contamination Risk During Tracheostomy

Frequent Contamination of Healthcare Worker Scrubs

Contamination during doffing of personal protective equipment by healthcare providers

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to describe the processes of both the donning and the doffing of personal protective equipment for Ebola and evaluate contamination during the doffing process. METHODS We recruited study participants among physicians and nurses of the emergency department of Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Korea. Participants were asked to carry out doffing and donning proce...

Designing Incentive-based Demand Response Program for Minimizing Financial Risk of Retailer during Peak Period

In this paper, a customer incentive scheme is proposed for retailers to build an effective demand response program over the peak demand period to minimize the financial risk. Firstly, an objective function is formulated based on the market operation and an optimal incentive price is derived from this objective function. Secondly, the incentive price is employed as a part of an incentive scheme ...

Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak

Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only persons in whom probable SARS was diagnosed had specific antibodies and suggests that subclinical SARS is not an important feature of the dise...

Healthcare worker influenza vaccination in nursing homes.

To the Editor: The report on “Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination in Nursing Homes”1 is very interesting. Campbell et al1 reported that “Given that [nursing homes] generally have low employee influenza vaccination rates, it may be necessary to target lowperforming facilities to achieve substantial improvements.” In fact, the problem of prevention for influenza among paramedical personnel an...