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Risk Factors for Outbreaks of COVID-19 at Retirement Homes in Canada
Nov 01, 2021

Reviewed by Dr. Michael Payne, MD, London Health Sciences Centre A population-based, retrospective cohort study of licensed retirement homes (RH) in Ontario, Canada, from Mar.…

Measuring what matters in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs to Demonstrate their Value

Reviewed by Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine and Vanessa Stevens, PhD, University of Utah  Measures of successful antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are…

Asymptomatic COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination: Always Learning

Reviewed by Clare Marlin, MS, BSN, CIC, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Erica Stohs, MD, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center  A new systematic review reports…

How low can we go? 3 versus 8 days for community-acquired pneumonia
Oct 29, 2021

Reviewed by Hannah Imlay, MD, MS, University of Utah Health  In this non-inferiority randomized controlled trial across 16 centers in France, adults admitted with community-acquired…

When can I visit? A review of hospital visitor policies during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Reviewed by Clare Marlin, MS, BSN, CIC; Shirley Ryan AbilityLab  Often engaging the ethical principles of public protection from harm and individual liberty, hospitals adapted…

FDA Lends an Outpatient Stewardship Hand

Reviewed by Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine  Between 2015 through 2019, fluoroquinolone fills in the United States decreased 10.8% annually (p=0.001), with…

Schools, Summer Camps, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission

Reviewed by Emily Thorell, MD, MSCI University of Utah Health and Zachary Willis, MD, MPH University of North Carolina School of Medicine At the outset…

COVID-19 Disease and Vaccination in Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women

Reviewed by Michael Payne, MD, London Health Sciences Centre and Erica Stohs, MD, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center Meta-analyses analyzing pregnancy outcomes from COVID-19…

Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT) and the J&J/Janssen (Ad26.COV2.S) COVID vaccine

Reviewed by Shaefer Spires, MD, Duke University School of Medicine and James “Brad” Cutrell, MD, UT Southwestern Medical School There have been several cases of…

Unpacking the C. difficile infection prevention bundle

Blanco and colleagues recognized a gap in examination of the effectiveness of individual components of C. difficile infection (CDI) reduction bundles. In this quasi-experimental study implemented at…

Surging CLABSI rates during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Reviewed by Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, FSHEA, Duke University Two recent publications in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology reported central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates in…

Advancing Antimicrobial Stewardship for Children

Reviewed by Emily Thorell, MD, MSCI, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT and Zachary Willis, MD, MPH, University of North Carolina School of…

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