Tufts University School of Dental Medicine Student Dental Clinic

a.
What are the infection rates, what are the statistics, where are the
reports available for the Student Dental Clinic at Tufts University
School of Dental Medicine
http://www.tufts.edu/dental/patient/index.html

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b.
What are the infection rates, what are the statistics, where are the
reports available for your favorite Dental Schools clinics?...

stoptheinfections.org advocates that information be made available
http://stoptheinfections.org

Health / Science
The Boston Globe

WHITE COAT NOTES
Are health workers' hands clean? Go ahead and ask

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/11/07/are_health_workers_hands_clean_go_ahead_and_ask/

November 7, 2005
Doctors and nurses who fail to wash their hands at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center may hear about it from
their patients.

The hospital is adopting an unusual method to improve hand
washing and cut down on dangerous infections among its
patients.

Starting today, nurses will review the importance of hand
washing with all patients when they're admitted and tell them
they should question their health-care workers about whether
they've washed their hands before touching them.

Staff will wear buttons declaring ''Go Ahead and Ask."


Beth Israel Deaconess executives said other hospitals that
involve patients have increased hand washing by 35 to 60
percent.

Executives at the Harvard Medical School teaching hospital
will send empty soap and disinfectant containers to an
outside firm that will analyze how much soap is used during
specific time periods to determine if the program has
increased hand washing.

The hospital warns health-care workers to prepare themselves
for questions.

If a patient catches them with soiled hands, a hospital
power-point presentation recommends a non-defensive response:
''Thank you for reminding me; I will do that now."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/11/07/are_health_workers_hands_clean_go_ahead_and_ask/

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