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The ebbing H1N1 influenza pandemic could leave one lasting legacy for future patients: they will be a lot less likely to die of nosocomial flu transmitted by a health care worker.
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In this prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial from the Netherlands, 6,771 patients were screened on admission to the hospital for the presence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization using real-time PCR.
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During the early stages of the H1N1 pandemic, the only vaccine available to hospitals was the live attenuated intranasal (LAIV) version, but many shunned LAIV out of an abundance of concern for high-risk patients.
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Though some other infection prevention duties were shunted aside, IPs and the health care system in general rose to the challenge of the first pandemic in four decades.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made "a serious mistake" in holding fast to a recommendation that health care workers wear N95s or comparable respirators during the H1N1 influenza A pandemic, a national pandemic planner says.
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The death of a nurse from a coinfection with H1N1 influenza A and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) should have been more thoroughly investigated for a work-related link, according to the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA).
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Paul Offit, MD, infectious disease chief at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has been front and center in the fight against the growing anti-vaccine movement and he has the hate mail to prove it.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that a final rule will appear in the Nov. 18, 2008, Federal Register detailing changes to the agency's outpatient ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system.
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An unlucky 13 out of every 1,000 inpatients in recently surveyed hospitals were either infected or colonized with Clostridium difficile, a rate that is 6.5 to 20 times higher than previous incidence estimates.
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(Editor's note: The following frequently asked questions were posted on The Joint Commission web site regarding the issue of health care-associated infections and sentinel events. They were marked as most recently reviewed in March 2008.)
