Search results for "Infection Control"
July 13, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/13/
Newly admitted patients' hands commonly contaminated with multidrug-resistant bacteria
While hand hygiene for clinicians is widely recognized as an important component of infection prevention, protocols for patient hand hygiene should also be considered, the study authors said.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/24/3.htm
24 Apr 2019
CDC publishes guidance on testing for flu, COVID-19, RSV
Patients being hospitalized with acute respiratory illness during flu season should be tested with the combined nucleic acid assay for influenza A/B/SARS-CoV-2, if possible, with repeat testing if the SARS-CoV-2 result is negative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/20/free/cdc-publishes-guidance-on-testing-for-flu-covid-19-rsv.htm
20 Dec 2023
Hospital cleaning bundle reduced incidence of health care-associated VRE infections
The intervention, which focused on staff training at 11 hospitals in Australia, reduced the number of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infections but did not change rates of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia or Clostridium difficile infection.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/20/3.htm
20 Mar 2019
Do you need a checklist?
There's limited evidence but apparent potential for these tools in hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/02/do-you-need-a-checklist.htm
15 Feb 2021
In the News
Guidelines on preventing MRSA and CLABSI in hospitals, how to curb readmissions, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/09/itn.htm
15 Sep 2014
Models show state-wide coordination could prevent many resistant infections
Individual hospitals' efforts to fight carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae will be significantly less effective than a collaborative effort among a network of hospitals and nursing homes, according to a study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/08/12/2.htm
12 Aug 2015
A deviant approach to hospital challenges
Positive deviance is a bottom-up, rather than top-down, approach to solving seemingly intractable problems in an institution or a community. It's based on the observation that certain individuals or groups (positive deviants) have found better solutions to these problems than their peers have.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/positive.htm
15 Nov 2009
Man meets dog
In the hospital for a series of tests, Mary C. looks forward to a visitor, Casey. When he arrives, Mary's face lights up in anticipation of his warm greeting. But first he has to go through the required alcohol gel routine: one paw at a time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/10/profile.htm
15 Oct 2009
Chlorhexidine bathing wasn't effective for preventing infections on the wards
One health system described an unsuccessful intervention to combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), while the CDC reported that overall declines in hospital-onset MRSA have slowed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/13/4.htm
13 Mar 2019