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Safe Practices for Health Care Providers and Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
Vicki L. Kraus, PhD, ARNP, CDE, and Sherry A. David, RN, BS, CIC

Currently an estimated 23.6 million people, or 7.8 percent of the US population, have diabetes. A comparison of prevalence data from 2002 suggests that the net number of patients with diabetes is growing by approximately 1 million per year. Of this number, 17.9 million have been diagnosed, and an additional 5.7 million are undiagnosed. Approximately 186,300 people aged younger than 20 years have either type 1 or type 2 diabetes; approximately 23.5 million, or 10.7% of all people aged 20 or older, have diabetes; and about 12.2 million, or 23.1% of people aged 60 or older, have diabetes. In 2007, 1.6 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 years and older.1
Furthermore, there are 57 million people with pre-diabetes, a condition in which blood sugars are above normal but not high enough to merit a diagnosis of diabetes.2 Individuals with pre-diabetes have been found to be at risk for developing type 2 diabetes at a rate of 10% per year if preventive lifestyle interventions are not implemented.3 These statistics indicate that it is likely that a significant number of patients who are hospitalized will have diabetes, either diagnosed or undiagnosed.

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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: A Review

Nicole Gerdts, BSN, RN, CIC, and Lisa Caffery, MS, BSN, RN, BC, CICTuberculosis (TB) is a Communicable disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) or the tubercle bacillus, which is spread from person to person through the air. TB usually affects the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body, such as the brain, kidneys, or spine. Left untreated, TB can be fatal.

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Catheter-associated bloodstream infections: is it possible to get to zero?
Implementing CRBSI Strategies: Interviews with the Experts

Central Venous Catheters: Saline or Heparin for Locking

 

 

 

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ADVISORY BOARD

Gwen Beiningen,RN, MS, CIC
Infection Control Coordinator
Sioux Valley Hospitals & Health Systems
Sioux Falls, SD
Gail Bennett, RN, MSN, CIC
Associate Executive Director,
ICP Associates, Rome, GA
Nancy Bjerke, RN, MPH, CIC
Infection Control Associates
San Antonio, TX

Barbara DeBaun, RN, MSN, CIC
Director, Infection Control
California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, CA

Elaine Flanagan, BSN, MSA, CIC
Manager Epidemiology
Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI

Susan Slavish, RN, BSN, MPH, CIC
Infection Control, Queen’s Medical Center
Honolulu, HI

Barbara Soule, RN, MPH, CIC
Consultant, Joint Commission Resources
Oakbrooke. IL

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