ARLINGTON, VA (December 21, 2022) — Healthcare facilities should no longer routinely screen symptom-free patients for COVID-19 upon admission or before procedures and rely instead on enhanced…

Reviewed by S. Shaefer Spires, MD, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC This question was identified by community hospital antimicrobial stewardship…

Reviewed by Erica Stohs, MD, MPH, University of Nebraska Investigators employed optimized statistical process control (SPC), a surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance system, in a multicenter,…

Reviewed by Dr. Michael Payne, MD; London Health Sciences Centre Multiple COVID-19 monoclonal therapeutic agents have been limited by emergence of new variants, with a…

Reviewed by Hannah Imlay, MD, MS, University of Utah The impact of SER-109, an oral microbiome therapy comprised of purified Firmicutes spores intended to reduce…

Reviewed by Cindy Noyes, MD, University of Vermont Medical Center; Burlington, VT Tan and colleagues describe an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) in one of…

Reviewed by Cindy Noyes, MD, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT Casaroto and colleagues compared hand hygiene compliance via electronic monitoring in contrast to…

Electronic monitoring may offer a more realistic measure than human observation when evaluating hand hygiene, a real-world comparison Antimicrobial stewardship – Transplant style Wait, so…

Reviewed by Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA, Duke University, Durham, NC and Vanessa Stevens, PhD, Veteran’s Affairs Office of Quality and Patient Safety, Salt…

Reviewed by Michael Payne, MD, London Health Sciences Centre The US FDA boxed warnings on the use of fluoroquinolones were updated in 2016 and included…

Reviewed by Zachary Willis, MD MPH, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Prolonged pandemic school closures strained families and were harmful to children’s physical…