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Reducing Hospital Acquired Infections

This essay briefly reports study results from ten journal articles. The topic is hand hygiene and its effects on HCAIs. The simple...

A Proposal to Assess Measures to Prevent Infection for ERSD Patients

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the use of methods to reduce infection for patients with End Stage Renal Disease....

A Proposed Study, Design, Sampling and Ethics in

This research paper presents an example paper pertaining to the way in which a proposed research study examining the effect of pat...

Basin Baths and Nosocomial Infections

This research paper offers a brief literature review that indicates that basin baths promote bacterial growth and, therefore, incr...

Nosocomial Infection Risk and Basin Baths

This research paper begins with a problem statement that concerns the need to reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired (nosocomia...

Replacing Basin Baths, A Study Proposal

This research paper describes a proposed research study that investigates whether or not traditional basin baths constitute a sour...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

This research paper discusses management of MRSA infection within a medical/surgical unit. Three pages in length, three sources ar...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Case Report

neck & trunk involvement and vomiting (two-and-a-half year old); tripping, voice change, difficulty swallowing, inability to sit u...

Urinary Tract Infections

An additional complicating factor for women is that, unlike males, they do not have the advantages of prostatic secretions that ac...

Controlling and Preventing Pandemics

Pathogenic organisms have the potential to radically alter human life. Human beings, like all animals, are both directly...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Upper Respiratory Infection and Stress

almost always changes when that person is feeling great stress. The person does things in an attempt to deal with and control the ...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

Article Analysis Of Refusal Of Pertussis Vaccination And Incidence Of Infection

possibility of spreading the disease in exponential proportions. Not only are unvaccinated children vulnerable to contracting per...

HIV Prevention for Youth in Rural Areas

sex (Dunn, et al, 2007). Statistics, such as this, indicate the clear need for HIV prevention programs that specifically target ad...

Staph Infection, Identication and Prevention

Bacteria are found in practically every environment. Some are completely harmless when it...

Hand Hygiene Project, Part B

that the research report does not offer a description of the study instrument, nor does it offer details on the methods of data an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

Cranberry and the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections

This paper concludes that because at least one study questions its effectiveness, cranberry should probably not be the only treatm...

Infection/Cross Contamination and Hand Hygiene

This research paper pertains to hand hygiene and its importance. Problems, as well as solutions, are discussed. Three pages in len...

Stroke Patient and Increases in Urinary Tract Infections

third of women with urinary tract infection will experience a recurrence during the following year, with recurrence being most com...

Central Venous Catheter Infection Prevention

infection in other forms of catherization can offer useful information towards the investigation of this topic although it is not ...

Proposed Research on Urinary Tract Infection Prevention Through Cranberries

In eleven pages this paper presents a study proposal on how UTIs can be treated and prevented by drinking cranberry juice. Ten so...

Women's Health and MRSA Infections in San Francisco Prisons

who were incarcerated at the San Francisco County jail showed a marked increase for MRSA in recent years.-- going from 29 percent ...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Antibiotic Use, and Childhood Infections

In six pages Sydenham's chorea is discussed as it relates to obsessive compulsive disorder and the treatment of strep throat with ...

Severe Pharyngitis, Inflammatory Response and Bacterial Infection Treatment Evaluation

In forty pages this paper examines a severe case of pharyngitis and assesses various types of treatment alternatives. Fifteen sou...

Measles Infection and Immune Response

to the virus or whether they have had a vaccination or previous exposure to the virus. If a vaccination or a previous exposure is ...