High impact information on Organizational Policy

• Fifteen months later, when voluntary compliance to institutional policy was terminated, 70% of E cloacae were sensitive to ceftriaxone and 73% of P aeruginosa were sensitive to ceftazidime [1].
• Such efforts should include assessment or monitoring of hand care practices, formal institutional policy adoption and control of use of skin protectant products or lotions, and prudent use of latex gloves or more widespread use of powder-free and nonlatex products [2].
• A retrospective analysis of the clinical and economic outcome of a regimen of cefotaxime 1 g given every 12 h was conducted following the introduction of an institutional policy recommending this new dosing strategy [3].
• Finally an institutional policy pertaining to a standing order for the influenza vaccine was approved by the Infection Control Committee and the hospital Medical Staff Committee and 95% of the patients on the extended-care facility of this hospital were immunized [4].
• This was followed with routine intravenous theophylline therapy according to institutional policy [5].

Gene context of Organizational Policy

• We created a social ecological model to examine which social factors (i.e., environmental, personal, person/environment interplay, black culture and institutional policy) were predictive of PSA and DRE, PSA only and DRE only [6].
• Should HECs audit compliance with institutional policies and enforce sanctions for violations? Yes [7].
• At all the hospitals surveyed, the traditional NPO policy continued to be the official institutional policy [8].
• METHODS: Beginning in April 2003, our institutional policy changed toward a midaxillary approach in prepubescent patients with an atrial septal defect, in whom criteria for catheter closure were not fulfilled [9].

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