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CDC Releases Next Segment of Antibiotic Stewardship Online Course

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Antibiotic Stewardship today released the second in a four-part online training course on antibiotic stewardship.

Five Key Issues to Improve Health, Improve Quality of Patient Experience and Lower Costs

There is a common theme among hospitals and health systems working to contain health care costs while also improving health outcomes: using medical resources more appropriately.

CDC Issues Spanish Version of Antibiotic Stewardship Materials

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released Spanish versions of its most popular materials to educate health care

CDC Urges Aggressive Action to Stop Spread of Antibiotic-resistant Germs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today urged state and local health departments and health care facilities to work with its Antibiotic Resistance Lab Network to implement a coordinated strategy to prevent the spread of unusual germs that are resistant to all or most antibiotics or can spread their resistance to other germs, reporting more than 220 instances of such germs in the United States last year.
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Reducing Hospital-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infections

Despite implementing universal gloving, an increased emphasis on hand hygiene and antibiotic stewardship measures, the facility ended the year with a rate that was more than double its target.

CMS issues final rule revising CoPs for long-term care facilities

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule representing the firs
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Infection Prevention

As many older patients are affected by Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in hospital settings, South Nassau Communities Ho

Hospital groups urge CMS to refine sepsis management measure

Four national hospital organizations, including the AHA, yesterday urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to suspend plans to implement Oct.

Patient Safety 24-7/365

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new Vital Signs report focused on the imp

CDC: Hospitals preventing infections; antibiotic resistance ongoing challenge

Acute-care hospitals reduced central-line associated bloodstream infections by 50% and surgical site infections by 17% between 2008 and 2014, according to a Vital Signs