“Rigid policy mandates that are not based in science but rather in fear will have an unintended, negative impact on our ability to deliver safe and effective care to our patients…...”This applies to so much more than the question of which mask to wear to protect health care workers from influenza.
Friday, October 2, 2009
They write letters
SHEA sent a letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today on the mask issue, in the wake of the JAMA study by Loeb, et al. I’ll link to the whole letter later if I can find it online, but I wanted to highlight this sentence:
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