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All the caveats and concerns about whether infection rate disclosures will lead to unintended consequences were more or less rendered moot. For starters, there's a guy on the CR cover snowboarding out of giant TV screen.
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The report recently released by Consumer Reports (CR) on infection rates in health care facilities highlights the importance of transparent public reporting, but a national system is needed to replace the variety of state approaches, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) said in a statement.
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Beneath the general praise Consumer Reports (CR) received for publishing hospital infection rate data and bringing the importance of infection prevention to the forefront, there is a lingering question in the mind of many a health care epidemiologist.
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A fatal meningitis infection in a pregnant woman in Ohio has been linked to an anesthesiologist giving shots into the spine without wearing a surgical face mask, a breach of current infection prevention guidelines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Case reports by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included the following details about three bacterial meningitis cases in postpartum women in New York:
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When I was an IP Newbie back in January 1990, my manager insisted literally made me go to the monthly local APIC chapter meetings.
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After some 20 years in infection prevention, Allison McGeer, MD, has weathered both the 2003 Toronto outbreak of SARS and the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza A pandemic.
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The Joint Commission's 2010 patient safety goal to prevent multidrug-resistant infections (NPSG.07.03.01) includes the following key aspects and elements of performance:
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The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) recommendations to patients to avoid acquiring pneumonia in the hospital include the following key measures:
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While expressing overall support with proposed federal reduction targets for health care associated infections, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) raised several concerns in comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
