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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / November 2005Tufts 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 ? 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_w orkers_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_w orkers_hands_clean_go_ahead_and_ask/ > a. > What are the infection rates, what are the statistics, where are the [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > What are the infection rates, what are the statistics, where are the > reports available for your favorite Dental Schools clinics?... Except for the exceptional cases like Kimberly Bergalis/David Acer, the occasional transmission of Hep B, and the pretty much theoretical transmission of legionella in contaminated water lines, what kind of infections are we talking about here? The problem is that on an out-patient basis, statistics on cross-infection are very hard to gather--where they are gathered at all. How do you suppose this could be done in a dental setting? Steve > stoptheinfections.org advocates that information be made available > http://stoptheinfections.org [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > ''Thank you for reminding me; I will do that now." > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/11/07/are_health_w orkers_hands_clean_go_ahead_and_ask/  SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 I spent a few days visiting my mother who is hospitalized now and the floor corridor has dispensers of antibacterial waterless lotion/soap outside of each room. In the patient bathrooms and public bathrooms, there is liquid soap intended to be used with running water. A patient in that ward wouldn't know if a nurse of doctor washed their hands with the lotion. There aren't any sinks in the patient's bed area of the rooms. TW > > a. > > What are the infection rates, what are the statistics, where are the [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] > > http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/11/07/are_heal > > th_workers_hands_clean_go_ahead_and_ask/ > I spent a few days visiting my mother who is hospitalized now and the > floor corridor has dispensers of antibacterial waterless lotion/soap [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > TW We've had patients who work for the city department of health as restaurant inspectors. Some of them say that if I saw what they did I'd never eat in a restaurant again. Nosocomial infections have always been a big problem, and I don't doubt that they are a problem in the dental setting as well. I just don't know what could be done to actively police proper infection control policies. Seems to me that even the most easily documented (such as submission of autoclave spore tests) would be very difficult to accomplish. Steve >>>a. >>>What are the infection rates, what are the statistics, where are the [quoted text clipped - 64 lines] >>>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/11/07/are_heal >>>th_workers_hands_clean_go_ahead_and_ask/ SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 Thank you Mark Bornfeld ! Thank you Steven Bornfeld ! Good question! Would you have any other ideas regarding that point or related ideas? At the Student Dental Clinic of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine the instructing dentists move from one patient to another patient and back and forth again not washing between patients. > Mark & Steven Bornfeld > [quoted text clipped - 70 lines] > Brooklyn, NY > 718-258-5001 > Thank you Mark Bornfeld ! Thank you Steven Bornfeld ! > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Medicine the instructing dentists move from one patient to another > patient and back and forth again not washing between patients. That's OK--if they don't touch the patients! Steve SignatureMark & Steven Bornfeld DDS http://www.dentaltwins.com Brooklyn, NY 718-258-5001 >> At the Student Dental Clinic of Tufts University School of Dental >> Medicine the instructing dentists move from one patient to another [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Steve Or any of the instrumentation. Changing gloves perhaps ? -- W_B Take out the G'RBAGE wubbabubbazG@RBAGEyahoo.com The correct link is http://stophospitalinfections.org |
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