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Research Team Develops New Model to Anticipate Disease Outbreaks at 2012 Olympics

A research team led by St. Michael's Hospital's Dr. Kamran Khan is teaming up with British authorities to anticipate and track the risk for an infectious disease outbreak at the Olympics in London this summer. For the first time, experts from around the world are working ...More
4 weeks ago
Posted in News
Study Establishes Importance of Tracking Diseases Associated with Illegal Wildlife Trade

A collaborative project led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Wildlife Conservation Society, EcoHealth Alliance, and others is monitoring illegally imported wildlife products for viruses and other at several U.S. international airports. Recent ...More
5 weeks ago
Posted in News
Better Together: The RN and the EHR

With the prodding of new federal legislation, electronic health records (EHRs) are rapidly becoming part of the daily practice of hospital nurses – the frontline providers of care. In the first large study of its kind, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of ...More
5 weeks ago
Posted in News, Policies and Practice
Slide Show: Electronic Surveillance Systems

ICT presents a slide show highlighting information from a special digital issue sponsored by CareFusion that explores manual and electronic surveillance systems and their role in facilitating data collection and management. ...More
December 8, 2011
Posted in Galleries, Policies and Practice
Researchers Analyze Tweets for Bio-Surveillance

Micro-blogging services such as Twitter offer the potential to crowdsource epidemics in real-time. However, Twitter posts (‘tweets’) are often ambiguous and reactive to media trends. In order to ground user messages in epidemic response Nigel Collier, of the National ...More
October 13, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Cleaning, Decontamination Help Address Environmental Reservoir of Pseudomonas

Studies of recent hospital outbreaks caused by multiresistant P.aeruginosa (MRPA) have often failed to identify a specific environmental reservoir. Cristina Suarez, of the Infectious Diseases Service at Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge at the University of Barcelona in ...More
October 13, 2011
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Infections & Pathogens
Think Locally When Treating Individually for Communicable Diseases

By taking local biosurveillance data into account when assessing patients for communicable diseases, doctors may be able to make better diagnostic decisions, according to researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. For instance, in the case of strep throat, awareness of ...More
September 20, 2011
Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
Investigators Report on Five Years of Surveillance for Invasive Aspergillosis

As the most common invasive fungal infection, invasive aspergillosis (IA) remains a serious complication in immunocompromised patients, leading to increased mortality. Antifungal therapy is expensive and may result in severe adverse effects. Karolin Graf, of the Institute ...More
August 25, 2011
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene
Electronic Surveillance Poll Results

ICT announces the latest results of our poll on electronic surveillance. ...More
July 25, 2011
Posted in Blog
Going Live With Electronic Surveillance

It is the rare infection preventionist (IP) who has not daydreamed at some point about automating components of their infection prevention and control program by going live with an electronic surveillance system. It is also the rare IP who has not been surprised by some of ...More
July 11, 2011
Posted in Articles, Policies and Practice