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The federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) $34 million initiative to prevent health care associated infections (HAIs) includes the following hospital-based projects.
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Already shown to reduce central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs), a checklist protocol program has now shown to reduce mortality in ICU patients age 65 and over, researchers report.
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A catastrophic case of failed kidney transplants in two patients due to a multidrug resistant Escherichia coli infection in the donor underscores the critical role of communication and documentation between health care facilities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration may be becoming more cautious in its push for new regulations that include a standard on infectious diseases.
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Saying preventing health care associated infections (HAIs) is a national priority, the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is putting considerable money where its mouth is: $34 million.
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As patients have moved, infections have moved with them. Accordingly, there is a surge of interest and research funding to implement and improve infection prevention beyond the hospital.
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Infection preventionists who want to keep their programs in compliance should be well aware that when emergency responders transport an incoming patient who is later found to have a potentially life-threatening disease, they need to receive prompt notification from the hospital about the exposure risk.
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A recent federal report that included the highly publicized finding that some 15,000 Medicare patients die every month due to adverse events and hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) may ratchet up pressure on hospitals to prevent infections, which represented some 15% of the HACs.
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Group B streptococcal (GBS) disease is the leading cause of early-onset neonatal sepsis (within the first week of life) in the United States. Since the initial recommendations for perinatal prophylaxis in the 1990s, the incidence of GBS has declined by 80%.
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The national epidemic of Clostridium difficile is moving into the pediatric population, causing infections in children that prolong hospitalizations, increase morbidity and spell a striking increase in the risk of death.
