Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. Recommendations on the use of 18F-FDG PET in oncology 3. Gene expression signatures, clinicopathological features, and individualized therapy in breast cancer 4. AHA Guidelines on Cardiac CT for Assessing Coronary Artery Disease 5. Rapid correction of low vitamin D status in nursing home residents
Top Ten Searches
etanercept hypertension chf antiphospholipid fibrosis mrsa scid renal cell rickets counterpulsationYour Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesInfluenza in long-term care facilities: Preventable, detectable, treatable
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 09/03/09
Mossad SB – Influenza in long–term care facilities is an ever more challenging problem. Vaccination of residents and health care workers is the most important preventive measure. Although vaccine efficacy has been questioned, the preponderance of data favors vaccination. Antiviral resistance complicates postexposure chemoprophylaxis and treatment. Factors that limit the choice of antiviral agents in this patient population include limited vaccine supplies and impaired dexterity and confusion in long–term care residents.
- When health care workers in long–term care facilities are vaccinated against influenza, significantly fewer residents die or develop influenza–like illness, particularly when residents are also vaccinated.
- Easily accessible dispensers for alcohol–based antiseptic foam or gel can significantly improve hand hygiene rates in health care workers.
- If a patient in a long–term care facility is visibly coughing and cannot cover his or her mouth, health care workers should wear a mask when within 3 feet of the patient.
- All isolates of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 (previously called swine–origin influenza virus) are susceptible to zanamivir (Relenza) and oseltamivir (Tamiflu), but are resistant to amantadine (Symmetrel) and rimantadine (Flumadine).
Related Articles
Update on 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 10/05/09
Relevance Score: 95%
The first Pandemic of the 21st Century: A Review of the 2009 Pandemic Variant Influenza A (H1N1) Virus
Postgraduate Medicine, 10/02/09
Relevance Score: 95%
Importance of Routine Public Health Influenza Surveillance: Detection of an Unusual W-Shaped Influenza Morbidity Curve
American Journal of Epidemiology, 11/11/09
Relevance Score: 94%
Bacterial Coinfections in Lung Tissue Specimens From Fatal Cases of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1)--United States, May-August 2009
JAMA, 11/04/09
Relevance Score: 94%
Using Complementary and Alternative Medicines to Target the Host Response during Severe Influenza
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 10/05/09
Relevance Score: 94%
Today in Geriatrics...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and the multidimensional approach. A new look at the older patient with gastroenterological disorders
Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology , 12/06/09
Demography of aging and the epidemiology of gastrointestinal disorders in the elderly
Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology , 12/06/09
Endothelial dysfunction and erectile dysfunction in the aging man
International Journal of Urology, 12/04/09
Today in Infectious Disease...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Rifaximin in the management of colonic diverticular disease
Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 12/06/09
Guanine Exchange Factor Vav2: A Novel Potential Target for the Development of Drugs Effective in the Prevention of Papillomavirus Infection and Disease
American Journal of Therapeutics, 12/04/09
Molecular Genomic Approaches to Infectious Diseases in Resource-Limited Settings
PLoS Medicine, 12/04/09
Today in Preventive Medicine...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Guanine Exchange Factor Vav2: A Novel Potential Target for the Development of Drugs Effective in the Prevention of Papillomavirus Infection and Disease
American Journal of Therapeutics, 12/04/09
Physical Activity, Body Mass Index, and Diabetes Risk in Men: A Prospective Study
American Journal of Medicine, 12/04/09
Vaccination with ALVAC and AIDSVAX to Prevent HIV-1 Infection in Thailand
New England Journal of Medicine, 12/04/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor
Sponsor