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The successful use of checklists to prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) has been highly publicized, in part because of the sheer novelty of using a simple solution to solve a highly complex problem.
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In the age of safer needles, vaccination and prophylaxis, the risk of hepatitis B among health care workers has dropped dramatically, from a high of about 12,000 cases a year in the 1980s to 203 reported acute cases from 2005 to 2010.
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Meet Christie Chapman, BSN, RN, CPAN. A California hospital infection preventionist for scarcely more than a year, she is plenty smart enough to recognize the truth when she reads it. As in the quote above from a blog by an IP with more than three decades of experience.
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Amid the generally depressing news about the national epidemic of Clostridium difficile there were hopeful reports of hospital collaboratives driving infection rates down.
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With the misuse and overuse of antibiotics driving drug resistance in general and emerging Clostridium difficile in particular, infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists want to have a greater role in antimicrobial stewardship programs.
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While the pressure grows to raise the rate of influenza vaccination of health care workers to 90%, an identical Healthy People 2020 goal for hepatitis B vaccination of health care workers remains quietly unmet.
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Dramatic progress in reducing several major health care associated infections (HAIs) in recent years has been offset by the unrelenting rise of Clostridium difficile, the spore-forming pathogen that can cling steadfast to hands even after washing with soap and water.
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THE REASONS FOR THE HIGHER RISK OF STROKE IN WOMen who have atrial fibrillation (AF), compared to men, is unclear, but under-treatment with warfarin has been suggested as a cause.
