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CDC looking to CMS to add ‘teeth’ to new antibiotic stewardship guidelines
Threat of untreatable infections could prompt regulatory actionStewardship: 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.One page that may save a few lives
Vegas ex-doc gets life for HCV outbreak
The first ‘antibiotic steward’ warned this day would come
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
Universal decolonization study slashes BSI rates, but will mupirocin resistance be the Achilles heel?
Active surveillance proponents question findingsThe 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).