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Year in Review: Surveillance and Epidemiology

With 2010 coming to a close quickly, ICT presents the top news items and articles of 2010 relating to surveillance and epidemiology, ranked in order of popularity based on Web clicks by ICT readers. 1. Electronic Surveillance is Key to HAI Investigation 2. Study of ...More

December 21, 2010

Posted in News

Surveillance Can Help Boost Implementation of Contact Precautions

The use of contact precautions is an essential component of an effective control plan for multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Emily Mawdsley, of the section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and colleagues, report that ...More

November 30, 2010

Posted in News, PPE & Standard Precautions

Surveillance of Community-Acquired Listeria Monocytogenes Meningitis in Adults

Listeria monocytogenes is the third most frequent cause of bacterial meningitis. Amaya-Villar, et al. (2010) sought to know the incidence and risk factors associated with development of acute community-acquired Lm meningitis in adult patients and to evaluate the clinical ...More

November 29, 2010

Posted in News

DOD Center Tracks Health, Illness in U.S. Forces

By Cheryl Pellerin A new Defense Department agency employs combined medical expertise to track health, illness and injury across the military services, the center director said. Army Col. (Dr.) Robert F. DeFraites heads the Maryland-based Armed Forces Health Surveillance ...More

November 22, 2010

Posted in News

APIC Announces 2011 EPI Course Dates and Locations

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) announces the following 2011 dates and locations for the course, EPI 101: The Fundamentals of Infection Surveillance, Prevention and Control: April 4-7, 2011, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las ...More

November 15, 2010

Posted in News

APIC Responds to JAMA Article on Surveillance for Public Reporting of Bloodstream Infection Rates

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) says it shares the concern expressed in the recent Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study, "Quality of Traditional Surveillance for Public Reporting of Nosocomial Bloodstream ...More

November 15, 2010

Posted in News

Study Finds Variation Regarding Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections

The quality of public reporting of bloodstream infection rates among hospitals may be effected by the variation in surveillance methods, according to a study in the Nov. 10 issue of JAMA. “Public reporting of hospital-specific infection rates is widely promoted as a means ...More

November 10, 2010

Posted in News

Quality of Data Affects Detection of Turning Points in Flu Pandemic

Management of emerging infectious diseases such as the 2009 influenza pandemic A (H1N1) poses great challenges for real-time mathematical modeling of disease transmission due to limited information on disease natural history and epidemiology, stochastic variation in the ...More

November 8, 2010

Posted in News

Extra ED Surveillance Doesn't Benefit Conventional Surveillance for Meningococcal Infection

Researchers in New South Wales, Australia report in the latest issue of BMC Infectious Diseases that use of an emergency department (ED) surveillance system to augment conventional surveillance of meningococcal infection did not demonstrate a benefit. O'Toole and colleagues ...More

November 3, 2010

Posted in News

Healthcare Epidemiology Must Address Knowledge Gaps About HAIs, Experts Say

David K. Henderson, MD, of the Office of the Director of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, and Tara N. Palmore, MD, of the Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, say that healthcare ...More

November 1, 2010

Posted in News

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