Infection control: it's in your hands.

President's Page: Quality: it's in your hands.

Just clean your hands: measuring the effect of a patient safety initiative on driving transformational change in a health care system.

In 2007, the Ontario government introduced the Just Clean Your Hands program across all provincial hospitals. The goal of this patient safety initiative was to improve hand hygiene practices among health care providers through workplace culture change. A survey questionnaire was distributed to 729 nurses employed at a single large community-based hospital from April to July 2011. Of the 223 nur...

Hung up over painful hangnail

If you get a hangnail, it?s recommended that you avoid pulling or biting it off. Instead, remove the excess skin with nail clippers or nail scissors. To avoid infection, make sure to wash your hands regularly. You mentioned that your hangnail is very sore and swollen ? this could be a sign of infection. It?s wise to apply some over-the-counter antibacterial ointment or cream (after you clean an...

Guide to Safe Medical Practice in Outpatient Settings During COVID-19 Pandemic

  Background and aims: Presently, human kind is challenging with a highly contagious disease, COVID-19, caused by a newly emerged virus, SARS-COV2. Health care providers are at the front line of fighting, as well as, at the risk of getting infected.  Many attempts have been made to combat the disease are mostly focused on hospital settings rather than outpatient settings so far. Therefore, add...

National home care standards urged.

176 CMAJ, February 8, 2011, 183(2) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors orient themselves with a lot of resources and a lot of sophistication. What do you do with a solo GP? Or even a multi-group practice?” Infection prevention and control in Canada has been focused on acute care facilities as a consequence of rising rates of health care–associated infections, which are now esti...