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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: December 2010
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Monday, December 6, 2010. Save the Planet, Cut Back on Disease. As if we needed yet another reason to save the environment! A study published in the December issue. Reveals that a decrease in biodiversity may in fact trigger the increased transmission of disease. How about the opossum? This hardly cuddly creature may actually be saving you from contracting Lyme disease! Now examine the bacterium Clostridium difficile. It’s a poor host? So save the trees, prote...
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: October 2010
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Monday, October 18, 2010. Boggle the Mind with Dr. Brad Spellberg. A master of the microbe, Dr. Brad Spellberg confirms in his book Rising Plague. What everyone has begun to reluctantly admit: We’re in dire straits, and without some fundamental changes, the post-antibiotic era may well begin…tomorrow. The Miracle of Life. Some golden facts from a particularly mind-boggling Spellberg passage:. Microbes comprise about 60% of the mass of life on the planet. Those...
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: August 2010
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Friday, August 13, 2010. In this month’s issue of. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Scientists reported the spread of a scary antibiotic-resistance gene called NDM-1. While NDM-1 originally emerged in India and Pakistan, it hasn’t stayed there. Indeed, it’s on a bit of a world tour, sightseeing in the United Kingdom, the. Canada, Sweden, and the. Drugs called carbapenems are traditionally reserved to treat highly resistant gram-negative infections. But as o...
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: November 2010
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Bio-Intervention Specialists Seen In Infection Control Today. Check out Infection Control Today. To learn more about the Bio-Intervention Disinfection Service. Molly Sandler, Bio-Intervention Research Manager. Monday, November 22, 2010. 60% of Hospital-Acquired Infections Believed Preventable. Adverse Events Affect 1 in 7 Medicare Patients. The event is on the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) list of Serious Reportable Events. In this...
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: September 2010
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Welcome, VIM, to the US of A! The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. MMWR) describes the U.S. arrival of yet another. Mechanism by which gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae. Etc) can resist carbapenems. Besides NDM-1, and the even more common KPC gene, we now have to contend with the verona integron-encoded metallo-beta-lactamase carbapenemase, known simply as VIM. Which proved resistant to all. Tuesday, September 21, 2010.
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: Happy World Health Day! (oh, and don't drink the water)
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Happy World Health Day! Oh, and don't drink the water). Today, April 7th, 2011, marks the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Day. Theme: Antibiotic resistance – no action today, no cure tomorrow. And oh how incredibly timely this theme is…. Released today, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan describes:. The message on this World Health Day is loud and clear. The world is on the brink of losing these miracle cures. NDM-1,...
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: And Yet Another Deadly Acronym: CRKP
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Thursday, March 31, 2011. And Yet Another Deadly Acronym: CRKP. Looks like it’s about time to weigh in on the emerging crisis. Quick recap: In June 2010, researchers at the California Department of Public Health began to require that healthcare facilities report any cases of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. CRKP) It marked the first time that the state had ever required any type of surveillance for this type of pathogen. Why the big deal, though?
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: 60% of Hospital-Acquired Infections Believed Preventable
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Monday, November 22, 2010. 60% of Hospital-Acquired Infections Believed Preventable. Adverse Events Affect 1 in 7 Medicare Patients. Recently published by the Office of the Inspector General established that in October 2008, one of every seven (13.5%) Medicare beneficiaries experienced an “adverse event” while in the hospital. The event is on the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) list of Serious Reportable Events. All in all, the study found that in a single mont...
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center: April 2011
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Hospital-Acquired Infection Resource Center. Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Adverse Events may be Underreported by 90%. Published this month by Health Affairs. Researchers found that adverse events in hospitals may be underreported by as much as 90%. In other words, the incidence of adverse events may be up to 10 times greater than previously thought. Researchers compared the sensitivity and specificity of three different methods for reporting adverse events: The new IHI Global Trigger Tool, the AHRQ Patient...