Reviewed by: Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine and Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, Duke University Two recent observational studies from the depths of…
Reviewed by: Valeria Fabre, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine In 2009, the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) introduced the healthcare facility-onset (HO) laboratory-identified…
Reviewed by: James “Brad” Cutrell, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Valeria Fabre, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Since antimicrobial stewardship in the…
Reviewed by: S. Schaeffer Spires, MD, Duke University School of Medicine Preventing Staphylococcus aureus transmission in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) poses a unique infection prevention problem…
Reviewed by: Rupak Datta, MD PhD; Yale School of Medicine andVanessa Stevens, PhD; University of Utah School of Medicine Two articles this month promote importance of…
Reviewed by Lauren M. DiBiase, MS, University of North Carolina Hospitals Psychological safety is defined as the degree to which people view the environment as…
Reviewed by: Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine Military personnel and service members may inadvertently be carriers of pathogens, causing infections among close…
Reviewed by: S. Schaeffer Spires, MD, Duke University School of Medicine Haigh and colleagues evaluated the test characteristics and turnaround times (TAT) for the rapid…
Reviewed by: Valeria Fabre, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Two articles this month highlight the impact of the environment on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). …
Reviewed by: Jesse Sutton, PharmD, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System; James “Brad” Cutrell, MD, FIDSA, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center The recent…
Reviewed by: Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, Duke University January 2020 held three notable public health stories to follow, with emerging data out of January’s MMWR…
Reviewed by: James “Brad” Cutrell, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center; S. Schaeffer Spires, MD, Duke University School of Medicine Two recent epidemiologic studies “shed” important…