Audits and training critical to food safety
Briefings on Infection Control, October 1, 2008
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With MDROs and other dangerous hospital-associated infections to contend with, foodborne illnesses are not always on ICP’s radar screens.
“But [this issue] needs to be, because foodborne illnesses can kill a patient,” says Connie DeLeo, BS, MT (ASCP), CIC, IC coordinator at Baton Rouge (LA) General Hospital.
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