Hospital Infection Control & Prevention
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Breakthrough Against the C. diff Infections Curse?
A Canadian study produces stunning results on what is arguably the greatest infection threat to patient safety.
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Knowledge is power: CME reduces HIV care costs
At a time of fiscal pressure on healthcare budgets, researchers are finding potentially dramatic cost reductions, not to mention improved medical outcomes, through continuing medical education.
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FDA moves to ban powdered gloves
The FDA has proposed banning powdered gloves in healthcare, a move that should protect patients and healthcare workers from latex allergens and was nevertheless criticized as long-delayed.
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Hepatitis, HIV testing urged for thousands of patients due to drug diversion case
In an all-too-familiar scenario, a hospital worker charged with diverting drugs in Colorado had a history moving from hospital to hospital, prompting several other facilities to advise thousands of patients to get tested for bloodborne pathogens.
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CDC baffled by obscure bug after 18 deaths
It is rare that arguably the world’s best medical detectives are frankly stumped by the cause of an outbreak that is clearly an ongoing threat to public health. This is one of those times.
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Once dismissed, CAUTIs now a prevention priority
Once considered so benign and low priority they were termed the “Rodney Dangerfield” of infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections are gaining respect – but giving little ground.
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A New Era For Driving Down Infections, Harms
Once criticized for not collaborating to prevent hospital infections, federal agencies now work together to make a difference measured in patient lives and healthcare dollars.
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Global Village: After Ebola and Zika, Patient Admitted to U.S. Hospital with Lassa Fever
As this issue went to press, the CDC confirmed that a patient admitted to Emory University Hospital’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit has Lassa fever, a hemorrhagic virus endemic in parts of West Africa.
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Zika Update: U.S. Approaching 200 Cases
As confirmed cases of the Zika virus disease continue to mount in the United States, frontline providers are scrambling to ensure that appropriate patients are screened for the illness, and to minimize the risk of transmission, especially to pregnant women.
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Increasing Job Requirements Warrant More Funding for IPs, Epidemiologists
As infection prevention and healthcare epidemiology continue to undergo a dramatic transformation in duties and responsibilities, resources and program support are lagging in many hospitals even as a Zika virus outbreak follows closely on the heels of Ebola.