HAIs

• Mar 11, 2010 - Hospitals Could Save Millions By Eliminating Five Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HealthLeaders)
  
  

• Mar 11, 2010 - Housekeepers, Transporters May 'Inadvertently' Spread Hospital Infection (PR-Canada.net)
  
  

• Mar 9 , 2010 - Superbug MRSA on rise in Canadian hospitals as well as in community, study finds (The Canadian Press)
  
  

• Mar 4 , 2010 - Surgeon’s study aimed at fighting MRSA (Gatehouse News Service)
  
  

• Mar 3 , 2010 - AORN Opens Surgical Attire Recommended Practice for Public Comment (Infection Control Today)
  
  

• Mar 3 , 2010 - Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics (The New York Times)
  
  

• Feb 26, 2010 - Treatment protocols for infections, MRSA vary throughout Europe (Orthopaedics Today Europe)
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010 - OR and SP Riding the Wave in the Perfect Storm (Infection Control Today)
  
  

• Feb 24, 2010 - N.C. lags in disclosing hospital infections (The News and Observer)
  
  

• Feb 23, 2010 - Hospital-Acquired Infections, MRSA, Killed 48,000 Americans In One Year (Medical News Today)
  
  

• Feb 23, 2010 - Hospitals Shouldn't Get Stingy with Disinfectants, Says Study (HealthLeaders)
  
  

• Feb 21, 2010 - Hospital infection data go unreported (The Des Moines Register)
  
  

• Feb 19, 2010 - DNA killer: Enough voltage to reach the killing effect (Product Design and Development)
  
  

• Feb 17, 2010 - Hospitals protect employees while caring for patients (The Patriot-News)
  
  

• Feb 13, 2010 - Hospital-Clean Hands, Without All the Scrubbing (The New York Times)
  
  

• Feb 12, 2010 - New Guidelines Issued for Management of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (MedScape)
  
  

• Feb 5 , 2010 - ICU Catheter Infections Can Be Virtually Eliminated (MedPage Today)
  
  

• Feb 3 , 2010 - Study: Two Methodist Health System hospitals have high ICU infection rates (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

• Feb 3 , 2010 - APIC Responds to Consumer Reports Article on Infection Rates (Infection Control Today)
  
  

• Feb 3 , 2010 - SHEA Issues Statement on Hospital Infection Rates Report (Infectino Control Today)
  
  

• Feb 3 , 2010 - Smart’ Coating on Implants Could Prevent Infection (Infection Control Today)
  
  

• Feb 2 , 2010 - Should we use closed or open infusion containers for prevention of bloodstream infections? (7th Space)
  
  

• Feb 2 , 2010 - Consumer Reports Health: Many Hospitals Fail To Lower Infection Risk Despite Lifesaving Checklist (Consumer Reports)
  
  

• Feb 2 , 2010 - Consumer Reports Health: Infection Rates in Houston Hospitals Vary; Room for Improvement at Every Reporting Hospital (Consumer Reports)
  
  

• Feb 2 , 2010 - 'Extraordinary resources' needed to tackle C. diff (BBC)
  
  

• Feb 2 , 2010 - Consumer Reports Health: Central-Line Infection Rates in Atlanta Hospitals Vary; One Hospital Reports Rates Up to 6 Times National Average; Some Hospitals Not Reporting (Consumer Reports)
  
  

• Jan 31, 2010 - Catching Hospital Workers Dirty-Handed (NPR)
  
  

• Jan 31, 2010 - Catching Hospital Workers Dirty-Handed (NPR)
  
  

• Jan 29, 2010 - Bacterial Meningitis After Intrapartum Spinal Anesthesia --- New York and Ohio, 2008--2009 (CDC)
  
  

• Jan 28, 2010 - New figures reveal major improvement in hand hygiene (The Press-Journal - Scotland)
  
  

• Jan 27, 2010 - CDC to Survey for Hospital Infections (Health Data Management)
  
  

• Jan 26, 2010 - Managing ventilator-associated pneumonia (Materials Management in HealthCare)
  
  

• Jan 26, 2010 - Dual Treatment Cuts Dangerous Hospital Infection (HealthDay)
  
  

• Jan 22, 2010 - Widespread antibiotic use in 1960s sparked MRSA (The Daily Telegraph - U.K.)
  
  

• Jan 20, 2010 - Researchers Optimize New Detergent for Instrument Disinfection (Infection Control Today)
  
  

• Jan 19, 2010 - Seguridad de Máscaras de Respiración (OSHA)
  
  

• Jan 19, 2010 - La Diferencia entre Las Mascaras de Respiración y las Mascaras Quirúrgicas (OSHA)
  
  

• Jan 18, 2010 - Blood infections plague TN hospitals (The Tennessean)
  
  

• Jan 15, 2010 - Epidemiologists Question Screening for MRSA Bacteria (The Maine Public Broadcasting Network)
  
  

• Jan 13, 2010 - 13,000 hospital infections reported in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
  
  

• Jan 13, 2010 - New Jersey ASCs Will Report Infection Rates Under a Patient Safety Bill (SURGistrategies)
  
  

• Jan 13, 2010 - Hospitals to Utilize Premier Healthcare Alliance Web-based Automated Surveillance Solution, Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON) To Increase Patient Safety, Reduce Costs (Business Wire)
  
  

• Jan 13, 2010 - Central Line Care Key to Less Pediatric Blood Infections (HealthDay)
  
  

• Jan 12, 2010 - MicroPhage Concludes Pivotal Clinical Study of World’s First Test Designed to Rapidly Identify Bacterial Infections and Antibiotic Susceptibility without Costly Equipment (Business Wire)
  
  

• Jan 12, 2010 - MRSA 'spread by patients moving between hospitals' (BBC)
  
  

SSIs:

• Mar 4 , 2010 - Surgeon’s study aimed at fighting MRSA (Gatehouse News Service)
  
  

• Feb 26, 2010 - Treatment protocols for infections, MRSA vary throughout Europe (Orthopaedics Today Europe)