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In a study of hiv transmission, 3,408 HIV-1 serodis cordant couples were enrolled at 14 sites in Africa.
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Dr. Scully reports no financial relationships relevant to this field of study. This study originally appeared in the February issue of Travel Medicine Advisor.
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A proud "Aussie" is the 2010 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), putting an international face on an organization that clearly wants to expand its global reach.
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The Joint Commission has dropped a controversial infection prevention patient safety goal that recommended sentinel event investigations of unanticipated patient deaths and serious injuries due to health care-associated infections (HAIs).
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Given that some trace the very founding of hospital infection prevention programs back to the first volleys in the longstanding battle with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), it comes as little surprise that The Joint Commission has made these bugs the focus of a National Patient Goal for 2010.
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All the caveats and concerns about whether infection rate disclosures will lead to unintended consequences were more or less rendered moot. For starters, there's a guy on the CR cover snowboarding out of giant TV screen.
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The report recently released by Consumer Reports (CR) on infection rates in health care facilities highlights the importance of transparent public reporting, but a national system is needed to replace the variety of state approaches, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) said in a statement.
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Beneath the general praise Consumer Reports (CR) received for publishing hospital infection rate data and bringing the importance of infection prevention to the forefront, there is a lingering question in the mind of many a health care epidemiologist.
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A fatal meningitis infection in a pregnant woman in Ohio has been linked to an anesthesiologist giving shots into the spine without wearing a surgical face mask, a breach of current infection prevention guidelines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
