...potentially infectious diarrhoea in all healthcare settings, including primary care and long-term care facilities. According to the data, the national overall rate of CDI in hospitalised patients was 3 cases...
...said Jeffrey Chodakewitz, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Vertex. The long-term agreement with the HSE provides, subject to market authorisation, for new Vertex medicines for certain...
...inspections in this area early next year. According to a recent (March 2017) HSE report on HCAI and antimicrobial use in long-term care facilities (LTCF), 4 per cent of residents...
...As the term ‘consultant’ is not defined in the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, this leaves hospitals free to hire any doctor should they wish, as long as they are...
...Health Care. The new Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care aims to achieve cross-party agreement on the implementation of a single, long-term vision for mental healthcare and...
...the Association had outlined the pressing need to increase such capital investment in its submission to the Ministers for Health and Finance, in the context of the Mid Term Review...
...care, and access to specialty care and treatment among those newly diagnosed. The authors implemented what they term as an HER-based ‘Best Practice Advisory’ (BPA) alert that prompted primary care...
...the problem. I have coined a term ‘acne latte’ which is most commonly experienced by women who love their daily latte/cappuccino etc. Parents tend to like teenagers to drink milk...
...ongoing research into the role of biomarkers such as troponin, BNP, echocardiography and concurrent DVT. Raised BNP and troponin are linked to right ventricular strain, which is associated with an...
...More could be said about that, but for another occasion. Since my first letter to Dr Wollaston my internet search of the GMC has proved unexpectedly informative about the harm...
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