Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – March 1, 2015
March 1, 2015
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HAI report: Hard-won gains fall short of ‘ambitious’ targets
Nobody said this was going to be easy. While much progress has been made, the unvarnished truth is that not one of the national health care associated infection (HAI) five-year reduction goals from 2009 to 2013 were met, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.1
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Reservoir bugs: CRE in long term acute care hospitals threatens to spread to other facilities
Long term acute care (LTAC) hospitals have been described as a "perfect storm" for emergence of multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs).
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CRE recommendations for facilities, clinicians
An absolute most for CRE: Whem transferring a patient notify the other facility about infections
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Enterovirus D68 a prime suspect, but CDC still investigating cause of paralytic syndrome in kids
With more than 100 children in 34 states still suffering from a mysterious flaccid paralysis syndrome that coincided with a national outbreak last fall of Enterovirus D68, the CDC looks for answers.
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FDA says it’s time to inform patients about risk as CRE outbreaks linked to endoscopes continue
An upper endoscopy procedure performed on some half million U.S. patients annually poses a risk of transmission of practically untreatable carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), FDA warns.
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CMS publically reporting hospital flu vac rates
Public reporting is raising the stakes for HCW flu vaccinations.