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  • Infected patients do worse than even sickest controls

    It may seem intuitive, even obvious to experienced ICPs, but acquiring an infection during hospitalization is about as bad as it gets for a patient. Even patients with a host of maladies that compromise their recovery fared significantly better in outcomes than patients who acquired infections.
  • ICP: Find a champion for infection prevention

    Having worked with a "physician champion" and greatly lowered infection rates by adopting an industrial process model, an infection control professional has joined the chorus that say infections are not an inevitable byproduct of medical care.
  • Zero' heroes are those that speak up for safety

    Empowering nurses and other clinicians to speak up when they perceive a patient safety problem may be the most important component of emerging new programs designed to drive infection rates to zero, emphasizes Sara Cosgrove, MD, hospital epidemiologist at John Hopkins in Baltimore.
  • Abstract & Commentary: Antibiotic 'cycling': Separating fact from fad

    Sandiumenge and colleagues evaluated the effects of three strategies of antibiotic prescribing in a 14-bed ICU. The strategies were applied serially, beginning with an initial 10-month period during which patients with suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia received "patient-specific therapy" in which multiple antibiotic regimens, chosen on the basis of length-of-stay and recent antibiotic exposure, were used.
  • Hospital factors bigger than patient severity of illness

    Infection control practices and other "hospital factors" specific to individual institutions appear to be a greater influence on infection risk than a patient's severity of illness, researchers found.
  • Four 'e' principles to infection reduction

    The program developed at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore that pushed catheter-related bloodstream infection rates to zero in some intensive care units is based on the following four overriding principles. Sara Cosgrove, MD, hospital epidemiologist, comments on each one as follows:
  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)

    The World Health Organization/International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Global Project on Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance began collecting its data in 1994 on drug resistance in 90 countries.
  • Treatment of Cholera in Adults with Single-Dose Azithromycin

    This article originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of Travel Medicine Advisor. It was edited by Frank Bia, MD, MPH, and peer reviewed by Philip R. Fischer, MD, DTM&H. Dr. Fishcer is Professor of Pediatrics, Divsion of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Dr. Fishcer reports no financial relationships relevant to this field of study.
  • New Once-a-Day Pill Submitted to FDA

    HIV antiretroviral therapy treatment soon will become a whole lot simpler than most antibiotic regimens when the FDA approves the combination pill of efavirenz/emtricitabine/ tenofovir (Truvada/Sustiva).
  • Updates By Carol A. Kemper, MD, FACP

    Within the United States, 3 groups of individuals have been deemed the highest priority for annual influenza vaccination based on estimates of risk: (1) Persons ¡Ý 65 yrs; (2) Persons 18-64 yrs with chronic health conditions such as cardiorespiratory disease or who reside in a long-term care facility; (3) and health care workers and other persons with close contact with groups 1 and 2.