Author: Dr. Michael Bell Deputy Director, CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Working at CDC, I see how our country is doing at protecting patients during medical care. While we’ve made some solid progress, I am still shocked when we u…
Author: Nimalie Stone, MD Medical Epidemiologist CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion The past few years have brought heightened awareness of the important role of infection prevention programs and activities in long-term care settings, inc…
New data posted yesterday and gathered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) gives patients a first look at how their local hospitals are doing at preventing Clostridium difficile inf…
Author – Andrew Wiese, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Applied Epidemiology Fellow, Tennessee Department of Health This week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR…
Authors – Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA Associate Professor of International Health and Director of Operations Research at the International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Think when another hospital in a region …
Authors – Peggy Bushey RN, CDN and Linda Fosher, RN with Renal Services and Sally Hess MPH, CIC, Infection Prevention at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington Vermont. The risk of transmitting bloodborne pathogens, including hepatitis C virus, in a …
Author – Matthew J. Kuehnert, MD Director, Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new guideline to improve patient safe…
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…