Quebec hospitals poorly designed for infection control, panel says
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MONTREAL - Hospitals need to be systematic and consistent about applying infection control measures to cut short an outbreak of C. difficile in Quebec, provincial health officials said Thursday.
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In the first six months of 2004, a bacterial strain has killed 109 patients in 10 hospitals in Quebec and contributed to 108 other deaths there, according to health experts in Montreal.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Public-health experts warned Thursday of a lack of private hospital rooms, resources and even hand-washing measures to fight the deadly C. difficile outbreak.
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OTTAWA -- Minister Ujjal Dosanjh can&#39;t say yet whether a private clinic for medical emergencies would violate the Canada Health Act - but critics say the violation is blatant.
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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A simple five-item checklist can prevent hospital infections.
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MONTREAL - Faced with a deadly C. difficile epidemic in Quebec, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday it will begin tracking the bacterium in 21 major teaching hospitals across Canada.
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The Calgary Health Region says it still doesn&#39;t know what made about 140 people sick at the Drop-In Centre. Health officials say that more people could also become ill.
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A health trust may have to bring in new practices to better monitor the hospital bug Clostridium difficile.
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Infections acquired in hospitals, which take a heavy toll on patients, arise mainly from poor hygiene in hospital procedures, not from how sick patients were when they were admitted, according to three new studies.
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Over 100 hospital wards closed amid fears that infection will spread
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A deadly bacteria that attacks the intestines of mainly elderly patients is showing up with more frequency at a handful of Ontario hospitals, Joshua Tepper, the Canadian province's acting chief medical officer of health, said on Tuesday.
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Mental health inpatients have to put up with poor and untherapeutic conditions on the wards, a survey finds.
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The report ultimately substantiated allegations against some of the hospital's doctors and  confirmed broader problems at the Army facility, including failure to ensure the good recordkeeping and oversight of quality of care.
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MONTREAL (CP) - An infection-control specialist described a C. difficile outbreak in Quebec Wednesday as an &#39;epidemic&#39; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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Quebec&#39;s provincial government has announced measures to step up the fight against a deadly strain of the Clostridium difficile bacterium plaguing hospitals in the province.
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MONTREAL (CP) - City health officials knew about the deadly C. difficile outbreak at least five months before the provincial Health Department was informed, according to a broadcast report.