- Alert: Infection control breaches unveiled at VA medical center. The San Juan Weekly
- Q-Net: Patient safety concerns in Puerto Rico. (Apil-May-June 2010)
- Q-Net: Infection-control lapses in ambulatory surgical centers (ACSs). (July 2010)
- Q-Net: Stopping hospital infections
- Q-Net: "Dear ERCI": Review of an evaluation of an AER (Part 2: Nov-Dec 2008)
- Q-Net: "Let sleeping dogs lie?" (Part 1: September-October 2008)
- Q-Net: Infection control's "growing weeds"? (January-February-March 2010)
- Q-Net: Endoscope storage revisited: A "safe" shelf life?
- Q-Net: "Dear Consumer Reports:" A comment about disclosed infection rates.
- Published reductions in infection rates: Valid data or optimistic thinking? BMJ
- Q-Net: Part 1: The STERIS System 1 (and its discontinued marketing).
- Q-Net: Part 2: Position Statement - The use of misbranded devices.
- Q-Net: "Sterile" filtered rinse water: Fact or fiction?
- Q-Net: The "updated" STERIS System 1: Will it be cleared by the FDA?
- Q-Net: What is an "investigational" device?
- Q-Net: What is a "510(k) clearance, premarket approval"?
- Q-Net: Part 1: Endoscope Damage
- Q-Net: Part 2: Endoscope Damage
- Q-Net: A review of an evaluation of the STERIS Reliance EPS
- "Risk of transmission of bacterial biofilms, C. difficile during GI endoscopy."
- Q-Net: Biofilms, Clostridium difficile: Much ado about nothing?
- Q-Net: "Sterile" filtered rinse water: Fact or fiction?
- Q-Net: Part 1: Biological Indicators (BIs)
- Q-Net: Part 2: Biological Indicators (BIs) to monitor rinse water?
- MMDI's "100 Notable People"
- How to stop the spread of Serratia in a neonatal ICUs: Part 1 Part 2
- The safe use of Cidex OPA, Metricide OPA Plus: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- TASS: Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome
- Q-Net: Details of a bronchoscope recall: Part 1 Part 2
- A proposal: To reduce the risk of nosocomial infection.
- Double standards in infection control.
- Endoscopic shuffling, push enteroscopy: Part 1 Part 2
- Risk of infection during bronchoscopy: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
- Risk of infection during flexible, rigid laryngoscopy: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
- California State Department of Health: Reprocessing flexible laryngoscopes.
- Reprocessing flexible and reigid laryngosocpes: Are quaternary ammonium disinfectants adequate?
- Risk of infection during GI endoscopy (Dear LA Times): Part 1 Part 2
- Q-Net: Transmission of Whipple's Disease during GI endoscopy?
- Q-Net: Transmission of SARS in the endoscopic setting?
- Dear Newsweek: March 1999
- Deja vu ... all over again? Pseudomonas infections revisited. Parts: 1 2 3 4
- Q-Net: Antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- Q-Net: Hepatitis C outbreak in NYC.
- Q-Net's Position Statements
- The CDC's "Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008" and Dr. Muscarella's 2002 review of a draft of this guideline.
Endoscope drying:
(1) To dry or not to dry (the endoscope)
(2) Part 1: Lessons from the bronchoscope case (Allegheny General)
(3) Part 2: Rebuttal to this bronchoscope controversy about drying
(4) Part 3: To dry or not to dry the endoscope?
"Dear AORN:" Part 1 Part 2
Q-Net: Website of the month
Q-Net in Italian: Potential errors in reprocessing
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