Author – Abbigail Tumpey, MPH CHES In my last blog, I discussed some of the emotions that patients may feel when they are notified that they were potentially exposed to an infectious disease during medical care – fear, anxiety, anger, loss of trust…
Author – Abbigail Tumpey, MPH CHES Imagine this – the phone rings, you hear a voice on the other end, “Hi, Mrs. Tumpey….I’m calling from Dr. Smith’s office. You had medical care at our facility a couple of months ago. We are calling to …
Author – Barbara M. Soule, RN, MPA, CIC, FSHEA Practice Leader, Infection Prevention Services Joint Commission Resources/Joint Commission International Oak Brook, Illinois Editor-In-Chief, The APIC Curriculum, 1983 “Infection prevention through the…
Author – John Jernigan, M.D., director of CDC’s Office of Prevention Research and Evaluation and head of CDC’s Prevention Epicenters Program. I am excited to announce the results of the REDUCE MRSA study which evaluated three current strategies f…
Susan Huang, M.D., M.P.H., lead author of the REDUCE MRSA study and Associate Professor at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine and Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at UC Irvine Health For years, we have searc…
The REDUCE MRSA trial was published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine and took place in two stages from 2009-2011. A multidisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Hospital Corporatio…
Guest Author – Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD Director, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy To many, antibiotic resistance may seem like an evergreen issue that reappears in the news cycle periodically. However, recent reports of the emergence and spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, described in CDC’s March 2013 Vital Signs Report remind us that we stand […]
Guest Author, Dr. Kerri Thom Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Epidemiology and Public Health University of Maryland School of Medicine As leaders in infection control and prevention, healthcare epidemiologists and infection preventionists mu…
The 2013 Tips From Former Smokers campaign is a continuation of last year’s very successful campaign. It was developed to share stories from real people about the dangers of smoking and secondhand smoke.
Guest Author, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Last Saturday marked the third birthday of the Affordable Care Act. We at CDC are in the prevention business. So, in addition to the Act’s provisions to increase …