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Long term care (LTC) settings will be the top priority in the next phase of the Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), a public health official reported recently in Dallas at the annual conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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In a collaborative effort that may serve as a model for other states, Maryland has linked long-term facilities and hospitals in the fight against multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR-Ab).
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Emerging multidrug resistant gram negative bacteria are spreading across the health care continuum, becoming entrenched in non-acute and long term care settings and threatening vulnerable hospital patients with untreatable infections, epidemiologists reported recently in Dallas at the annual conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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Noroviruses are the major single cause of gastroenteritis outbreaks throughout the world and the leading cause of foodborne disease in the United States.
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Therapeutic hypothermia does not result in improved outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury.
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This study of outcomes among more than 50,000 elderly Medicare beneficiaries found that activities of daily living and mobility had deteriorated substantially more among those who had been hospitalized the previous year, and that only 27% of those who had received mechanical ventilation were alive 1 year after hospitalization.