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Cures Act includes antibiotic provisions for CDC, FDA
Infectious disease groups have successfully lobbied Congress to pass legislation that would fast track development of new antibiotics, improve tracking of drug resistant bacteria and support the national push for antibiotic stewardship.
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Universal Masking Protects Stem Cell Patients
A universal masking policy for health care providers and home care workers dramatically reduced respiratory viral infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients, researchers report.1
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CDC Studies Hospital Acquired Influenza
In the historical debate about whether healthcare workers should be required to have seasonal influenza shots, sometimes the issue of whether and how much flu is actually transmitted by caregivers has been viewed with some skepticism.
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Clinicians Warn of Deadly Measles Complication
While undermining herd immunity in their communities, parents who decline measles vaccine for their children may be putting them and other kids at risk of a serious complication that is more common than once thought, researchers reported recently in New Orleans at IDWeek 2016.
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IDWeek 2016: Connections Drive Infections, as Bugs Move with Pts
Pathogens and patients move together across an interconnected healthcare continuum, meaning no matter how high a level of infection prevention is achieved in one hospital it is still at the mercy of a wide variety of transferring facilities, said Tom Frieden, MD, director of the CDC.
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Readmission Rates for Bariatric Surgery Drop with QI
Thirty-day readmission rates for bariatric surgery patients can be reduced by implementing a series of quality improvement efforts, according to recent research. Some of the top performers in the study more than doubled the average readmission reduction.
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Physicians Unlikely to Reveal Errors to Patients, Study Says
Primary care physicians are willing to report medical errors within the healthcare organization, but are not as likely to tell the patients, according to a recent study from the School of Public Health at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
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C. Difficile Reduced 75% with Targeted Interventions
A hospital in Medford, OR, reduced its rates of C. difficile infections by three-fourths with a targeted approach intended to identify exactly what strategy is the most effective after previous attempts left hospital leaders wondering which of several interventions had worked.
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Look for Variations in Data, Seek Out Causes
Studying a range of data sets at your hospital may reveal opportunities to improve outcomes and cut costs, says Nancy Lakier, RN, BSN, MBA, CEO and managing principal of Novia Strategies, a consulting company based in Poway, CA. The outliers and unusual numbers will point you toward issues that need more investigation, she says.