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2011 Year in Review: PPE and Standard Precautions

ICT celebrates the end of the year by bringing you a review of the top news items and articles from 2011 related to PPE and standard precautions. ...More

December 27, 2011

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Study Finds Patient Isolation Associated With Hospital Delirium

A new study finds that patients who are moved into isolation during a hospital stay are nearly twice as likely to develop delirium, a potentially dangerous change in mental status that often affects hospital patients. Patients who began their stay in isolation were not at ...More

December 12, 2011

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Researchers Examine Isolation's Effect on MRSA Transmission

Many studies have examined methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control measures, but few have been planned prospective single intervention studies in the endemic setting. Researchers from the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service of Royal Melbourne Hospital ...More

July 6, 2011

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A Liberal Isolation Policy and MRSA Surveillance

In a presentation at the International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC) held in Geneva, Switzerland. from June 29 through July 2, 2011, researchers from the hygiene team of the Rehabilitation Centre Inkendaal in Vlezenbeek, Belgium reported that ...More

July 5, 2011

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Duct Tape Strategy Improves Infection Prevention

A simple roll of duct tape has proven to be an inexpensive solution to the costly and time-consuming problem of communicating with hospital patients who are isolated with dangerous infections. A 504-bed Midwestern health system saved up to 2,700 hours and $110,000 a year by ...More

June 27, 2011

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Control Measures Helped Prevent Spread of CRKP

Matan J. Cohen, MD, MPH, of the Center for Clinical Quality and Safety at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, and colleagues, report in the latest issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology that patient cohorting, supplemented by widespread ...More

June 21, 2011

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VA Infection Control Practices Featured in New England Journal of Medicine

A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) initiative that reduced the global healthcare issue of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections by more than 60 percent in intensive care units (ICU) across the nation is featured in the latest issue of the New ...More

April 14, 2011

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Active Surveillance, Barrier Precautions Have Little Effect on Bacterial Spread

A new research study of the effect of a commonly used strategy to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital intensive care units (ICU) shows that the strategy had no significant effect. That’s the surprising finding of a multisite study led by Mayo ...More

April 13, 2011

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Expert Reviews Strategies for C. diff Transmission Prevention

In his presentation, "You are What You Eat: Clostridium difficile and You," at the annual SHEA scientific meeting held earlier this week, Curtis Donskey, MD, of the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, reviewed the sources of Clostridium difficile ...More

April 7, 2011

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Researcher Explores Whether Contact Precautions Do More Harm Than Good

In an article, "Emerging Infections: The Contact Precautions Controversy" in the latest issue of the American Journal of Nursing, author Rachel L. Zastrow, BSN, a patient safety liaison at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill. asserts that an automatic assignment of a ...More

March 22, 2011

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