Reviewed by Valeria Fabre, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine The SHEA White Paper on practical approaches to Staphylococcus aureus disease prevention for neonatal intensive care…
Reviewed by Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine A multicenter, retrospective cohort study of 220 patients demonstrated similarly high rates of clinical success…
Reviewed by Rupak Datta, MD PhD, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine According to two recent studies of hospitalized patients in the United…
Reviewed by Lauren M. DiBiase, MS, University of North Carolina Hospitals Rebmann et al. summarize results of an online survey developed by members of the APIC…
Reviewed by Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, FSHEA, Duke University Hospital, and James “Brad” Cutrell. MD, FIDSA, UT Southwestern Medical Center As the US passed the…
Reviewed by: Sonali Advani, MBBS, MPH, Duke University School of Medicine Haessler et al. performed a retrospective multicenter interrupted time series at three academic hospitals…
Reviewed by: Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine Several studies have described increased rates of MRSA, VRE and C. difficile colonization and infection among patients…
Reviewed by James “Brad” Cutrell, MD FIDSA, UT Southwestern Medical School Although rapid genomic sequencing has been used to supplement epidemiologic investigation of other infectious…
Reviewed by: Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, FSHEA, Duke University Hospital In the July issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Nace et al. present their AHRQ-funded implementation…
Reviewed by: S. Shaefer Spires, MD, Duke University School of Medicine and Valeria Fabre, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Three recent studies describe…
Reviewed by Clare Marlin, MS, RN, CIC; Brain Innovation Center, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab Forty-four patients were sampled utilizing a different procedure for confirming severe…
Reviewed by Emily Thorell, MD; University of Utah School of Medicine Visitor restrictions are currently a hot topic in many healthcare settings. Children’s hospitals have…