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CDC looking to CMS to add ‘teeth’ to new antibiotic stewardship guidelines
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Stewardship: Key features and six checklist questions
A proposed guideline by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs includes the following key aspects, as outlined recently in Atlanta at a meeting of the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. -
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Vegas ex-doc gets life for HCV outbreak
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The first ‘antibiotic steward’ warned this day would come
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CDC issues new PEP guidelines for HIV Cutting edge drugs ease the angst
New guidelines provide a simple response to occupational exposure to HIV: Take three anti-retrovirals as soon as possible and re-evaluate after 72 hours. -
The Joint Commission Update: Reducing errors in sterile processing of OR instruments
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Universal decolonization study slashes BSI rates, but will mupirocin resistance be the Achilles heel?
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The horror: CJD exposed patients wait and wonder
Imagine having to tell a neurosurgery patient that as a result of their recent procedure they may have been exposed via contaminated surgical instruments to the exceedingly rare but legitimately real risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).