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Although streptokinase is widely used in the management of pleural infection, a large, randomized, controlled trial showed no benefit in terms of mortality, need for surgery, or hospital stay.
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Is your state next? Laws requiring disclosure of individual hospital infection rates are sweeping the nation. Four statesPennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and Missourihave passed infection rate disclosure laws, and 20 others have introduced bills.
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A major focus of the recent Conference Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston in February 2005, was the issue of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in patients with HIV infection.
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A leading health care quality group is moving to set national standards for infection rate disclosure laws that essentially would codify recently released guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Hospital Infection Control has learned.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) recently released a template document for officials seeking to establish infection rate disclosure laws.
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Potentially fatal bacterial infections following platelet transfusions are flying below the infection control radar. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently drew attention to the problem by reporting two fatal infections following transfusions and noting that infectious disease physicians have a surprising lack of awareness about the problem.
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The new mindset of zero infection rates generally is considered more of a goal than a practical reality, an unattainable threshold meant to shake the complacency and comfort of some longstanding benchmark range. On the contrary, some infection control professionals are taking it literally. For certain infections on certain units, target zero is being obtained.
