Search results for "Infection Control"
U.S. hospitals saw overall decline in health care-associated infections from 2011 to 2015
Surgical-site and urinary tract infections decreased, while rates of pneumonia and Clostridium difficile in the hospital held steady, according to data gathered by the CDC.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/07/1.htm
7 Nov 2018
Do's and don'ts for personal protective equipment
Training is needed to break the common habits that can increase infection risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/dos-and-donts-for-personal-protective-equipment.htm
15 Oct 2018
Avoiding the femoral vein in central venous cannulation: an outdated practice
Contemporary data on central venous cannulation shows safety advantages to using the femoral vein in some cases.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/perspectives-avoiding-the-femoral-vein-in-central-venous-cannulation-an-outdated-practice.htm
15 Aug 2018
High inpatient occupancy levels associated with lower risk of hospital-acquired C. diff
Researchers analyzed administrative data from 2008 to 2012 among Medicare recipients with a discharge diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia at 327 California hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/04/2.htm
4 Jul 2018
Intentional, unintentional failures common in hospital transmission precautions
Failures ranged from entering rooms to talk to patients without wearing the required personal protective equipment (PPE) to reaching for one's badge or phone while wearing PPE.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/20/1.htm
20 Jun 2018
Infective endocarditis risk increased after many types of medical procedures
The findings could warrant reconsideration of prophylactic antibiotics for some patients, according to the study authors, who also called for assessment of the costs and benefits of elective procedures for patients at high risk of endocarditis.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/13/2.htm
13 Jun 2018
New guidelines issued on contact precautions for C. diff, resistant infections
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America advises discontinuing contact precautions after obtaining between one and three negative cultures in certain cases of drug-resistant infections, among other recommendations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/24/2.htm
24 Jan 2018
Let the computer figure it out
Researchers look at how machine learning could change hospital care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/01/machine-learning-computer-figure-out.htm
15 Jan 2018
Opioid disposal, medication cost alerts, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/12/recent-research.htm
15 Dec 2017
Defeating C. diff
While Clostridium difficile remains a stubborn infection, new drugs and research findings suggest some ways to more effectively combat it.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/07/defeating-c-diff.htm
15 Jul 2017