Author: Christian John Lillis My mother loved children. Me and my brother Liam, her 12 godchildren, and the 24 children she taught each year in her kindergarten class. We lost Mom at just 56 years old to a Clostridium difficile infection in April 2010….
Author: Don Goldmann, MD Chief Medical and Scientific Officer Institute for Healthcare Improvement Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology Harvard School of Public Health…
Author: Rear Admiral Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH Acting Surgeon General Antibiotics are powerful tools for fighting illness and disease, but some of these drugs are being rendered less effective due to overprescribing, misuse, and bacterial evolution. M…
Author: Alice Guh, M.D., M.P.H. Medical Officer, CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion When you are battling cancer, the last thing you want to get is an infection. This is one of the reasons why I am involved in Preventing Infections …
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…