Search results for "Infection Control"
Service animals in the hospital
Service animals play a crucial role in the lives of many people with a disability, but uncertainties abound when they're brought into hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/17/service-animals-in-the-hospital.htm
17 Jul 2024
CDC issues interim guidance on measles infection control and prevention in health care
New government guidance covers what is acceptable evidence of immunity to measles and how to respond if health care personnel are exposed to the disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/31/4.htm
31 Jul 2019
Bye-bye, CLABSI. Hello, HOB.
Experts explain the CDC's new quality metric, hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB), which will look more broadly at health care-associated infections.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/03/bye-bye-clabsi-hello-hob.htm
3 Jul 2024
Rise in HAIs during the pandemic, guidance on monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19
A new study found significant growth in health care-associated infections (HAIs), especially central line-associated bloodstream infections, during 2020, and the NIH offered advice on prioritization when monoclonal antibodies can't be given to all eligible patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/15/1.htm
15 Sep 2021
Outsmarting MRSA
An infectious diseases specialist offers advice on drugs and strategies to combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/05/01/outsmarting-mrsa.htm
1 May 2024
Clostridioides difficile order set increased appropriateness of testing, study finds
The smart order set, implemented in one health care system, put a hard stop on orders for Clostridioides difficile testing if patients admitted for more than four days had recently received laxatives or been treated or tested for C. difficile.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/07/03/clostridiodes-difficile-order-set-increased-appropriateness-of-testing-study-finds.htm
3 Jul 2024
Academic hospitals' discharge practices for patients with COVID-19 compared
Most U.S. hospitals provided patients with similar guidance on isolation, but their criteria for discharge varied, leading the study authors to call for more research in this area. An Italian study found high incidence of hospital-acquired infections among COVID-19 patients in ICUs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/21/2.htm
21 Apr 2021
December 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/12/
Studies examine impact of hospital policies on C. difficile infection rates
While one study found that participation in an antibiotic stewardship program from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality led to reductions in hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection rates, a simulation study found that visitor contact precautions may not be as helpful.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/03/4.htm
3 Mar 2021
Admission of COVID-19 patients to SNFs likely increased cases and related deaths
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that admitted patients with COVID-19 had 6.94 additional new cases per 100 residents than similar facilities that didn't admit patients known to be positive, a study from June 2020 to March 2021 found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/06/12/free/admission-of-covid-19-patients-to-snfs-likely-increased-cases-and-related-deaths.htm
12 Jun 2024