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Medical Students Engaged by Advance Care Planning Training, but Few Act

An educational session successfully engaged medical students in learning about advance care planning conversations, both professionally and personally, found a recent study.

Early DNR Status Adversely Affects Hospitals’ Quality Metrics

Higher mortality due to DNR rates results in classification of some hospitals as performance outliers, researchers found.

Nurses, Physicians Consider Different Factors to Decide on Family Presence During Resuscitation

Nurses and acute care physicians consider different factors for making decisions on family presence during resuscitation, found a recent study.

Ethicists Have More Evidence That Consults Are Effective, But Outcomes Inconsistent

Ethics consults are linked to high satisfaction and more likelihood of consensus, but outcomes used are inconsistent, found a recent study.

Hospitals Besieged by Opioid OD Patients

With U.S. emergency rooms being overrun with opioid patients, the national epidemic is putting pressure on myriad aspects of healthcare delivery. Infection prevention is no exception.

Wash Your Hands — or People Die

A new study of 26 French nursing homes found that a multifaceted hand hygiene program including staff, residents, and visitors did indeed reduce mortality.

The Whole (Genome) Picture: New Tools for Outbreaks

With whole genome sequencing, the chromosome of the bacteria that is common across an outbreak can be broken down in much greater detail.

New Guidelines for the Formidable Challenge of C. Diff

With input from the CDC, the IDSA and SHEA guidelines recommend fecal transplant for recurrent cases, outline new testing strategies, and recommend new first-line antibiotics.

Antibiotic Stewardship Begins at the Bedside

Antibiotic stewardship programs in hospitals have become a critical priority to stave off multidrug-resistant organisms. However, when officials began sounding the alarm about the issue, some infection preventionists — and certainly bedside nurses — felt it wasn't in their sphere of influence.

The Quest for Zero: Vanderbilt Awarded APIC Top Honor

Infection control at Vanderbilt has moved well beyond the historical stereotype of the IP crunching numbers in some isolated silo.