Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – March 1, 2014
March 1, 2014
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CDC: 'The game has changed' on looming antibiotic resistant bugs
Pick your poison: Hypervirulent KPC, untreatable E. coli in the community -
The battler: CRE can't beat an indomitable spirit
Of all the motivations to become an infectious disease doctor, this is one of the more unusual paths taken: lose most of one leg and nearly all of your life to a series of recurrent near pan-resistant bacterial infections that you've finally fought into remission but still have a 30% chance of coming back and trying to kill you. -
New era of infection prevention in long term
For years scarce data on health care associated infections in long term care has been extrapolated from small studies and published reports, but a new era of infection prevention is opening that may eventually produce the kind of benchmarking and national comparative HAI rates used in hospitals. -
CMS questions during a nursing home survey
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CDC trying to rein in antibiotic use in LTC
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Only a 50% adherence rate to infection control in ICUs
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Hospitals restrict visitors as H1N1 flu resurges
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CDC: Test workers for HBV immunity
As many as 10% may be non-responders