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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has opened enrollment for all health care facilities in the United States who wish to join its state-of-the art infection reporting system: the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
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Health administrators should consider the level of vaccination coverage among health care workers to be a "measure of a patient safety quality program," recommends the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the few diseases whose incidence and prevalence is actually increasing in the United States.
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SSRIs are associated with a low rate of birth defects according to 2 new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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The new guidelines recommend antibiotic prophylaxis of infective endocarditis in a much more restricted group of patients than did previous guidelines.
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This multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial finds that early initiation of low-dose, prolonged glucocorticosteroid therapy for ARDS results in improved lung injury scores and a greater likelihood of successful extubation by day 7.
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Standard 10-day triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori may result in relatively low eradication rates.
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A meta-analysis of 18 studies that have examined the usefulness of procalcitonin measurement in the diagnosis of sepsis finds that the diagnostic performance of this measurement is low and that the test cannot reliably distinguish sepsis from other causes of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome.
