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Joint ASHE, APIC and SHEA Response to Electronic Faucet Technology is Issued

Evaluating technology used in the healthcare environment is critical to advancing the use of electronic tools and ultimately improving patient care and safety. One such tool that has become prevalent in U.S. healthcare systems is the sensor-regulated faucet. Recent ...More
June 24, 2011
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Updated CDC Guidelines Target Infections in Patients With Intravenous Catheters

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) have updated a guideline, "Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections," designed to help practitioners eliminate ...More
June 13, 2011
Posted in Articles
Slide Show: Reprocessing Flexible GI Scopes

A look at the key points contained in the Updated Multisociety Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible GI Scopes. ...More
June 2, 2011
Posted in Galleries, Disinfection & Sterilization
CDC Issues Updated Norovirus Guidelines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion have issued its updated Guideline for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Healthcare Settings. Norovirus gastroenteritis infections and ...More
May 30, 2011
Posted in News
ASGE, SHEA Issue Updated Multisociety Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible GI Endoscopes

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have issued an updated Multisociety Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible GI Endoscopes. Members of the ASGE Quality Assurance in Endoscopy Committee ...More
May 10, 2011
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
Bringing Practice in Line With Published Guidelines Relating to CAUTI

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. However, many cases treated as hospital-acquired CAUTI are actually asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU). Evidence-based guidelines recommend that providers neither screen ...More
April 25, 2011
Posted in News
CDC Issues Updated Bloodstream Infection Prevention Guidelines

New guidelines, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), outline steps to eliminate bloodstream infections in patients with intravenous catheters, which are among the most ...More
April 1, 2011
Posted in News
IOM Recommends Standards to Achieve Reliable Clinical Practice Guidelines

Clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews of the evidence base for healthcare services are supposed to offer health care providers, patients, and organizations authoritative guidance on the comparable pros and cons of various care options, but too often they are ...More
March 31, 2011
Posted in News
New Monograph Aims to Increase Tdap Vaccination of Adults and Adolescents

Pertussis rates have increased over the last two decades, primarily in adolescents and adults who have waning immunity from previous pertussis vaccinations or infection; however, it is infants who are too young to be vaccinated that bear the burden of severe pertussis. Low ...More
February 1, 2011
Posted in News
NQF Maintains Endorsement of Safe Practice to Prevent Surgical Site Infection

The National Quality Forum (NQF) announces that its board of directors has maintained endorsement of a Safe Practice that was considered under NQF's ad hoc review process. Safe Practice 22, which addresses appropriate skin preparation to prevent surgical site infection, is ...More
January 11, 2011
Posted in News