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      • Superbug on Rise
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      • Illinois Screenings for Staph are Now the Law
      • Researchers Verify Link Between Heartburn Medicati...
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Article Index (Alphabetically)

  • (APIC) National Prevalence Study of Clostridium difficile in U.S. Healthcare Facilities (1)
  • $25 Manicure Turns Into $80 (1)
  • 000 in Medical Bills (1)
  • 000 New Case of Swine Flu in One Week (1)
  • 000 Patients at Risk (1)
  • 10 Germy Surfaces You Touch Every Day (1)
  • 3 Out of 4 Canadian Doctors Skip Hand Washing (1)
  • 3 Steps Might Help Stop MRSA's Spread (1)
  • 31 Nurses Reveal What to Watch Out for in the Hospital (1)
  • 4 Employees: MRSA Outbreak at New York Maternity Ward (1)
  • 7 Babies (1)
  • A Deadly Bug Invades Our Towns (1)
  • A Hi-Tech Approach Helps to Track Infection (1)
  • A Mother’s Letter to a Hospital CEO (1)
  • A New Design for Healthcare Delivery (1)
  • A Short History of Vancomycin (1)
  • A Skeptic Becomes A True Believer (1)
  • Active Surveillance Works in Pittsburgh (1)
  • Administrators Give Thumbs-Up to Screening (1)
  • Aggressive Staph Found to Secrete Compound That Attacks Immune Cells (1)
  • Aggressive Staph Germ Found to Attack Immune System (1)
  • Almost Any Antibiotic Can Lead to C. Difficile Infection (1)
  • An HAI Primer (Exhaustive Overview) (1)
  • and How Worried Should We Be? (1)
  • Antibiotic Overuse Contributes to Rendering Them Useless (1)
  • Antibiotic Overuse Threatens Modern Medicine: Experts (1)
  • Antibiotic Overuse? Not in Norway (1)
  • Antibiotic research: the kryptonite of superbugs (1)
  • Antibiotic-Coated Medical Devices Could Cut Infections (1)
  • Antibiotic-Resistant Infections (1)
  • Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Now a Major Threat to Public Health (1)
  • APIC Newsletter Discusses MRSA (1)
  • APIC Statement on Need for Increased Infection Prevention Measures (1)
  • At Least Three Youths Have Died (1)
  • Bacteria (1)
  • Bacterial Biofilm: What it is and What it Does (1)
  • Bacterial Pneumonia Found to be a Major Cause of Death in Flu Pandemic (1)
  • Bad Bugs (1)
  • Bath Basins as a Source of Hospital-Associated Infections (1)
  • Beaches May Harbor Staph Bacteria: U.S. Study (1)
  • Bee Gee Maurice Gibb and Pope John Paul II (1)
  • Biofilm: A Tale of Slime Cities (1)
  • Biofilms and Device-Associated Infections (1)
  • Blue Cross Won’t Cover Costs Tied to Hospital Errors (1)
  • Boy's Death From Infection Prompts Health Warning (1)
  • Brief History of C. Diff (1)
  • Britain Counts 55 (1)
  • Bundle Up for Safety (1)
  • Bundles. What are They and Why Do We Need Them? (1)
  • Bundling Hospital Processes May Help Prevent Infections (1)
  • but what about Acinetobacter? (1)
  • C diff Becoming More Prevalent (1)
  • C. Diff Out of Control (1)
  • C. Diff Outpacing Aids Fatalities (1)
  • C. difficile epidemic continues to worsen (1)
  • Canadian Survey Reports Shocking Non-Compliance (1)
  • Cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 causing new concern (1)
  • Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (1)
  • CDC Says (1)
  • CDC Urges Health Care Professionals to Use Proper H1N1 Infection Control Measures (1)
  • CDC: Swine Flu Questions and Answers (1)
  • Cell Phones Helping Spread Hospital Superbugs? (1)
  • Central Line Bundle (1)
  • Champions for Success Cover Bases With Infection Control Bundles (1)
  • Cheap Black Market Antibiotics- Bad Choice for Uninsured (1)
  • Child Treated at Hospital Days Before Staph Death (1)
  • Children With Flu At Risk Of Death From Staph Infections (1)
  • Children’s Staph Infections Increasingly Resistant to Drugs (1)
  • Claim MRSA Found in Supermarkets (1)
  • Clostridium Difficile Infection (1)
  • Clostridium Difficile is a Growing Problem (1)
  • Communication Now Part of the Cure (1)
  • Community Acquired Infections on the Rise (1)
  • Community MRSA Getting More Dangerous (1)
  • Compare Your Next Medical Procedure (1)
  • Comparison of Community and Health Care-Associated MRSA Infection (1)
  • Concerned Parents Seek Answers (1)
  • Contact Isolation in Practice in S.C. (1)
  • Cook County Jail Tied to Increase in Drug-Resistant Illness (1)
  • Crab Compound May Prove Effective Coating (1)
  • Cure for MRSA Near? (1)
  • Deadly Bugs Survive for Weeks in Hospitals (1)
  • Deadly Mess (1)
  • Deadly Superbugs are Talking About You (1)
  • Did You Wash Your Hands? (1)
  • Dirty Little Secrets (1)
  • Doctor (1)
  • Doctors Question WHO's Severe Swine Flu Warning (1)
  • Doctors Told to Stop Prescribing Antibiotics Inappropriately (1)
  • Doctors: MRSA (1)
  • Doctors' Apparel Tied to Spread of Infection (1)
  • Drug Resistant MRSA has Increased by 90% Over the Past Decade (1)
  • Drug-Resistant Infections Spur 10X Jump in Hospital Stays (1)
  • Drug-Resistant Staph Germ's Toll Is Higher Than Thought (1)
  • Early Intervention Can Save Lives (1)
  • Electronic Surveillance Systems Aid ICPs in Outbreak Investigation (1)
  • Epidemic Proportions. Statistics ... (1)
  • Experts Call for Improvements to Control Global Hospital Infection Epidemic of C-Difficile-Associated Disease (1)
  • Experts Say Cases of the Diarrhea Bug Are Now in All 50 States (1)
  • Facts About Antibiotic Resistance (1)
  • FAQ: Community Associated (Acquired) MRSA (1)
  • Farms Feeding Us a Side of Disease? (1)
  • Fatal in Past Pandemics (1)
  • Few Drugs (1)
  • Fighting Surgical Wound Infections (1)
  • Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) (1)
  • First Do No Harm (1)
  • Flawed Processes of Care and Hygiene Kill Patients (1)
  • Flu or No Flu - Wash Your Hands (1)
  • Flu Shot Might Have Prevented MRSA Pneumonia (1)
  • Forget MRSA for a Moment (1)
  • Gay Men at Greater Risk for MRSA (1)
  • Genes Turn On and Off? (1)
  • Germs in Surprising Places (1)
  • Getting C. Diff Under Control (1)
  • Getting to Better Compliance (1)
  • GOP lawmaker wants tougher penalties for hospital infections (1)
  • Gram Negative Bacteria (1)
  • Gram Negative Bacteria May Be Next Wave of Concern (1)
  • Gram Negative Bacteria Report Overview from IDSA (1)
  • Guidance for Control of Infections with Carbapenem-Resistant or Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Acute Care Facilities (1)
  • HAI Facts (1)
  • HAI-Related Litigation: What Infection Preventionists Need to Know (1)
  • Half of World's ICU Patients Have Infections: Study (1)
  • Hand Hygiene Compliance Improves with Incentives (1)
  • Hand Hygiene Compliance Remains a Goal Unrealized (1)
  • Hand Hygiene Formula (1)
  • Hand Hygiene Most Crucial Step to Stop Infections (1)
  • Hand Hygiene Prevents Infections (1)
  • Hand Hygiene Programs Prove Successful but Widespread Work Still Needed (1)
  • Hand Hygiene: Tapeworm Removed From Woman's Brain (1)
  • Hand Washing Compliance: Why the Difficulty? (1)
  • Hand Washing Helps to Prevent Swine Flu (1)
  • Hand Washing Not a Priority for Docs (1)
  • Hand Washing: Time Well Spent (1)
  • Hawaii Highest in MRSA (1)
  • Health Alert: Possible MRSA Cure? (1)
  • HHS Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections (1)
  • Hi-Tech Infection Surveillance (1)
  • Hi-Tech Probe to Predict Wound Infection (1)
  • Hospital (1)
  • Hospital Acquired Infection (1)
  • Hospital bug rate at record low (1)
  • Hospital Checklists Can Save Patients' Lives (1)
  • Hospital Crackdown Beating Superbug (1)
  • Hospital Cuts Deadly Infections (1)
  • Hospital Infection Rates to be Posted Online (1)
  • Hospital infections disturbingly common worldwide (1)
  • Hospital Scrubs Are a Germy (1)
  • Hospital's Blood Stream Infections Down to Zero (1)
  • Hospitals Look to Improve Infection Prevention Measures (1)
  • Hospitals Putting Bigger Emphasis on Hand Hygiene (1)
  • House Passes Legislation to Monitor MRSA (1)
  • House Staffer Infected With MSRA (1)
  • How Biofilm Works (1)
  • How to Combat the Latest Supergerms (2)
  • How to Properly Wash Your Hands (1)
  • Illinois Screenings for Staph are Now the Law (1)
  • Improving Adherence to Hand Hygiene Practice: A Multidisciplinary Approach (1)
  • In A Pandemic (1)
  • Increased Scrutiny Has Hospitals Focusing More on Safety (1)
  • Infect Me Not (1)
  • Infection Prevention is Everyone's Job (1)
  • Infection Prevention Means Mega Savings (1)
  • Infection Risk Linked to Premature Delivery (1)
  • Infections Account for 1/3 of All Deaths on Planet (1)
  • Infections Worry Military Doctors (1)
  • Information is New Tool in Fight Against Hospital Infections (1)
  • Interim Guidance for Swine influenza A (H1N1): Taking Care of a Sick Person in Your Home (1)
  • Intestinal Superbug Growing More Prevalent (1)
  • Invisible Staph Brings Down 200 lb. Football Player (1)
  • Is Your Beach Contaminated With MRSA? (1)
  • Jump Seen in Staph-Linked Flu Deaths in Kids (1)
  • Killer Flu Strains Lurk (1)
  • Kimberly-Clark Launches Campaign To Help Reduce Spread of Healthcare Associated Infections (1)
  • Klebsiella (1)
  • Last Resort Antibiotics (1)
  • Law Calls for Mandatory Education and Penalties (1)
  • Lawmakers set to make healthcare changes (1)
  • Lee County Hospital System Chokes Pneumoni (1)
  • Let Me See You Wash Your Hands (1)
  • Majority of Hospitals Unprepared Survey Says (1)
  • MDROs a Growing and Dangerous Problem (1)
  • MDROs Rampant (1)
  • Measuring the Prevalence of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease in Hospitals (1)
  • Medicare Says Hospitals Must Pay for Mistakes (1)
  • Medicare Says It Won’t Cover Hospital Errors (1)
  • Medicare Says NO to Mistakes (1)
  • Michael Jackson Has Potential Flesh-Eating Infection (1)
  • More People Dead From HAIs in One Decade Than Total Toll of American Who Died in Battle in All Wars (1)
  • More than 50% Increase in MRSA in Maine (1)
  • More Than 60 (1)
  • MRSA 10X More Prevalent Than Previously Thought (1)
  • MRSA and Flu Can Overlap into Pandemic Proportions (1)
  • MRSA Carried by Staff as Well as Patients (1)
  • MRSA Increasing in Children (1)
  • MRSA Infections Nearly Doubled Over Last 10 Years: Study (1)
  • MRSA Leads to Worse Outcomes (1)
  • MRSA presents a growing danger (1)
  • Mutate for Years Before They Go Pandemic (1)
  • New Medicare Regulations Adopted to Reduce HAIs and Medical Errors (1)
  • New Precautions to Curb Staph Infections (1)
  • New Report Shows High C-difficile Infection Rates in U.S. Hospitals (1)
  • New York Hospitals Expand Efforts To Reduce Infections (1)
  • Next Generation Antibiotics on the Horizon (1)
  • NFL Stars No Match for Bacteria (1)
  • Nightmare Scenario is Real ... (1)
  • Non-disposable Wires Put Patients at Risk (1)
  • Norway’s solution: Stop taking so many antibiotics (1)
  • Nose treatment cuts hospital-acquired infections (1)
  • Nosocomial Etiologies in UTIs (1)
  • Not Flu (1)
  • Old Bugs Learn New Tricks (1)
  • Oral Bacteria Linked to Health Problems (1)
  • Overall Cost-cutting Efforts Lead to Increased Infection Rate (1)
  • Overuse of Antibiotics Strengthens Bacteria (1)
  • Overuse of Antivirals Could Make H1N1 Pandemic Even Worse (1)
  • Patient Safety Awareness Tips from the Joint Commission (1)
  • Patient Safety: "Do No Harm" (1)
  • Patients Become Partners (1)
  • Patients Carry MRSA Between Hospitals (1)
  • Patients Want More Information (1)
  • Permaguard Invention Fights Spread of Bacteria (1)
  • Petri-Dish Screensaver Saves Lives (1)
  • Peyton Manning's Staph Infection (1)
  • Positive Deviance Reducing MRSA (1)
  • Prevention in a Pump (1)
  • Professor Battles Bacteria (1)
  • Reducing Healthcare-Acquired Pneumonias (1)
  • Report Publishes Hospital Infection Rates (1)
  • Report: Flesh-eating Bug Kills Cruise Ship Passenger in Hours (1)
  • Researchers Verify Link Between Heartburn Medication And Community-Acquired C. Difficile (1)
  • Resistant Case of Swine Flu Found in S.F. Teen (1)
  • Rise of Deadly Superbugs Should 'Raise Red Flags' Everywhere (1)
  • Rising Foe Defies Hospitals' War On 'Superbugs (1)
  • Risk of Transmission of Blood-borne Pathogens from Shared Use of Insulin Pens (1)
  • Rougly 50% Of Patients In Intensive Care Suffer Infections (1)
  • Safer Surgery - Standardized Practice Improves Patient Outcomes (1)
  • Save Antivirals for High-risk Cases (1)
  • Schools Report Spike in Staph Infections (1)
  • Scientists Find Ancient Bacteria in Antarctica (1)
  • Septicaemia Killed Christopher Reeve (1)
  • Sharp Rise In Skin Infections In U.S. (1)
  • She Expected Routine Surgery - But Not Flesh-Eating Bacteria (1)
  • Simple Reminders Reduce Deadly Infections (1)
  • Simple Techniques Slash Hospital Infections (1)
  • Single Course of Antibiotics May Cause Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria that Lasts 6 Months (1)
  • Sink (1)
  • Six States Report MRSA Infections (1)
  • Slime City: Where Germs Talk to Each Other and Execute Precise attacks (1)
  • Specific Types of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections (1)
  • Staff Size May Lower Infection Rates (1)
  • Staff vs Staph (1)
  • Staggering Expenses for Surgical Patients (1)
  • Staph Bug Causes New Pneumonia (1)
  • Staph Cases on Rise (1)
  • Staph Fatalities May Exceed AIDS Deaths (1)
  • Staph Germs Harder Than Ever to Treat (1)
  • Staph Infection Plagues Hootie and the Blowfish (1)
  • Staph Infection May Follow People Home From Hospital (1)
  • Staph Infections Go Beyond NFL (1)
  • Staph infections have risen by more than 90 percent (1)
  • Staph Risk at the Beach Leads to Discovery of Disease Fighting Drugs (1)
  • Staphylococcus Epidermidis (1)
  • Stomach Bug Crystallizes an Antibiotic Threat (1)
  • study finds (1)
  • Study Finds Simple Steps Reduce CV Catheter Infections by 66% (1)
  • Study Reveals Pomegranate Juice Effective in Fighting Bacteria (1)
  • Study: C. Diff Sickens More Than Previously Estimated (1)
  • Super Bowl 2009: NFL Players and Staph Infection (1)
  • Super Bug Bill Targets Hospitals (1)
  • Superbug on Rise (1)
  • Superbug Turns Cure into Killer (1)
  • SUPERBUGS Among Seven Trends That Should Concern Us (1)
  • Swabs in Hand (1)
  • Swine Flu Could Hospitalize 2 Million in U.S. This Winter (1)
  • Swine Flu Outbreak Offers Sneak Peak of Pandemic to Come (1)
  • Swine Flu Pandemic Declared by World Health Organization (1)
  • Swine Flu Returns to Walt Disney World (1)
  • Swine Flu Seen as Cresting (1)
  • Swine Flu Spreading at 'Unbelievable' Rate: WHO (1)
  • Swine Flu Survival: Three Ways to Protect Yourself (1)
  • Swine Flu: What you need to know (1)
  • Talking Bacteria and How to Shut Them Up (1)
  • Texas Football Succumbs to Virulent Staph Infection From Turf (1)
  • The 1st Vaccine Against HAIs (1)
  • The Answer to Infection Prevention and How We Must Proceed (1)
  • The Big Question: Is Swine Flu Mutating (1)
  • The Bugs Among Us (1)
  • The Bugs We Can't Defeat (1)
  • the Culprit Behind Infection Outbreak (1)
  • The Empowered Patient (1)
  • The Future of Infection Prevention (1)
  • The Killer in the Locker Room (1)
  • The Many Faces of MRSA: Community-Acquired Infection Knows No Bounds (1)
  • The Most Feared Opponent (1)
  • The Next BAD BUG (1)
  • The Next Flu Pandemic: What to Expect (1)
  • The Paralyzed Man Who Moved Us All (1)
  • The Secret Life of Bacteria (1)
  • The Shea Guideline Approach (1)
  • The Ventilator Bundle: Preventing VAP (1)
  • Therapy Dogs May Carry Germs (1)
  • These Things Happen (1)
  • Three Reports of Oseltamivir Resistant Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Viruses (1)
  • UNICEF Advocates Proper Hand Hygiene to Prevent Bird Flu (1)
  • USA 600 Strain (1)
  • USC's Unlikely Victory Over a Killer Bacteria (1)
  • Using New Strategy (1)
  • Vancomycin (1)
  • Wash Hands to Help Prevent Catching Swine Flu (1)
  • We Pay for Medical Errors (1)
  • What a CA-MRSA Infection Looks Like (1)
  • What is a Hospital Acquired Infection? (1)
  • What is Enterobacter Aerogenes? (1)
  • What is MRSA? (1)
  • Where's My Honey? (1)
  • WHO Says Swine Flu Down in Southern Hemisphere (1)
  • WHO Set to Declare First Flu Pandemic Since 1968 (1)
  • WHO Statistics on HAIs (1)
  • WHO Stops Giving Global Swine Flu Tally (1)
  • WHO: In Treating H1N1 (1)
  • Who’s most likely to spread infection in the hospital? (1)
  • Why Hand Washing May Be Your Best Medicine (1)
  • Winning the War Against Catheter-Related Infections (1)
  • Years After "To Err Is Human": What Have We Learned? (1)
  • You've heard of MRSA (1)
  • Your Purse is Contaminated (1)
  • Zero Tolerance for Infections: A Winning Strategy (1)

Patient Safety and Infection Prevention Resources

  • APIC
  • Association for Vascular Access
  • CHICA - Canada
  • Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
  • Every Patient's Advocate
  • HH Reports
  • IFIC
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  • Pulse
  • Safe Care Campaign
  • SHEA
  • Stop Hospital Infections
  • The Alliance for Safety Awareness for Patients
  • The Joint Commission
  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
  • U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs
  • World Health Organization
 
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