Early Sepsis Recognition in Home Care Settings
Today, on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Al Cardillo, executive vice president of Home Care Association of New York State (HCA), discusses a first-of-a-kind home care system for sepsis prevention and management.
For the past year the HCA has investigated the key role that home health professionals and agencies could play in sepsis prevention and has developed a multi-tiered action plan for the home care sector.
Join the conversation on sepsis at http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/category/sepsis/
CDC will host a Twitter chat with clinical professional organizations, sepsis survivors, and patient advocates today, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. ET to raise awareness on sepsis. Follow @CDC_NCEZID and join the conversation using #SepsisChat.
CDC Strategies Preventing Hospital-Onset C difficile Effectiveness Inconclusive in Testing
April 15th 2024Hospitals using CDC prevention strategies had different incidences of hospital-associated Clostridioides difficile infection compared to those that didn't, but the reasons are not necessarily the strategies themselves.
