April 22nd 2024
Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, epidemiologist, health services researcher, and associate professor at Thomas Jefferson University, shares insights on COVID-19's influence in acute care hospitals at this year’s Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) conference.
Equalizing Inequities™ in Multiple Myeloma Care: Shining a Light on Current Barriers and Opportunities for Improved Outcomes
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Medical Crossfire®: Maximizing Patient Outcomes in Shingles – Are You Leveraging Guideline Based Care?
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Understanding RSV: What You Need to Know to Prevent and Treat Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Your Patients
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus: Understanding the Infection Burden and Anticipating the Impact of Vaccines
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(COPE Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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(CME Credit) Community Practice Connections™: Keeping an Eye on Evolving Management Strategies for nAMD and DME
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Medical Crossfire®: Which Patients with Hematologic Malignancies are at Risk for Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID)… and How Can We Leverage Evidence to Improve Their Outcomes?
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities™ in Glaucoma Management – Understanding Challenges in Segmented Patient Populations (CME Track)
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Community Practice Connections™: Real-World Applications of Novel Therapies Across TNBC and Addressing Disparities in Care
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Advances in TNBC: Communicating with Your Patients About Clinical Trial Awareness and Treatment Concerns to Improve Clinical Outcomes
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease — Individualizing Vaccine Recommendations in Adolescent Populations
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Community Oncology Connections™: Overcoming Barriers to Testing, Trial Access, and Equitable Care in Cancer
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities: Bridging the Gap in Multiple Sclerosis – A Focus on Clinical and Healthcare Disparities in Black Patients
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Overcoming Racial Disparities in Multiple Myeloma Outcomes and Clinical Trials: How We are Moving Care Forward Today
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Community Practice Connections™: 5th Annual Precision Medicine Symposium – An Illustrated Tumor Board
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New Genetic Research Holds Promise for C. Difficile Treatment
August 25th 2016In the battle against drug-resistant pathogens, genetic research holds promising answers to our toughest threats. A new study shows that the best tool for treating Clostridium difficile infections could be within the genome of the bacteria itself.
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'Careful Observation' Can Improve Infection Prevention in Healthcare Settings
August 18th 2016Robin Jump, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University, discusses how 'careful observation' can be used to decrease the number of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions in the healthcare setting.
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Screening and Surveillance of Clostridium difficile in Healthcare Facilities
August 17th 2016Robin Jump, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University, discusses efforts to screen asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriers as well as some of the barriers to implementing active surveillance and putting asymptomatic carriers in isolation.
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New Study Explains Link Between Influenza and Deadly MRSA Infection
August 17th 2016According to the new study, the antibacterial response of white blood cells to the flu virus fails to target the S. aureus bacteria and instead causes inflammatory injury to the lungs and damage to surrounding tissue, creating a higher susceptibility to secondary bacterial infections such as MRSA pneumonia.
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Preventing C. difficile in Post-Acute Care Facilities
August 15th 2016Robin Jump, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University, outlines ways that healthcare providers can improve the prevention and management of C. difficile in post-acute care facilities.
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Shorter Antibiotic Regimens Recommended for Treatment of Pneumonia
August 1st 2016The IDSA and ATS have updated the Clinical Practice Guidelines for HAP & VAP for the first time since 2005 to recommend that each hospital generate antibiograms and reduce the use of antibiotics in treatment regiments.
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Animal-to-Human Infection Transmission During Healthcare Setting Visits
July 27th 2016Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, hospital epidemiologist, Virginia Commonwealth University, explains the risk of animal to human infection transmission during personal pet, service animal, and assisted-therapy animal healthcare setting visitations.
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What is Currently Being Done to Fight the Threats Associated with Antimicrobial-resistance?
July 24th 2016Marion A. Kainer, MD, MPH, FRACP, FSHEA, director, Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Program, Tennessee Department of Health, outlines currently available strategies to avoid antimicrobial resistance.
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Risk Factors for HAIs Unique to Special Populations
July 22nd 2016Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH, previously assistant hospital epidemiologist and associate director of antimicrobial stewardship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explains healthcare associated infection risk factors for individuals who are immunocompromised, and prevention methods.
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Thoughts on Antibacterial and Antimicrobial Central Line Devices
July 20th 2016Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH, previously assistant hospital epidemiologist and associate director of antimicrobial stewardship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses concerns over antibacterial and antimicrobial central line devices.
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Which HAIs Pose the Highest Risk for Special Populations?
July 19th 2016Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH, previously assistant hospital epidemiologist and associate director of antimicrobial stewardship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses healthcare associated infections that special populations, such as those who are immunocompromised, are most susceptible to.
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How Does the Hospital Environment Impact Susceptibility to HAIs in Special Populations?
July 15th 2016Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH, previously an assistant hospital epidemiologist and associate director of antimicrobial stewardship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, discusses how the hospital environment can be dangerous to special population patients.
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What Resistance Mechanisms Have Microbes Developed Towards Antibiotics?
July 15th 2016Jeff Boyd, PhD, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers school of Environmental and Biological Sciences, explains how Staphylococcus aureus and other microbes become antibiotic-resistant.
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FDA and CDC Continue to Investigate Multistate Outbreak of Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria
July 13th 2016Due to an ongoing investigation of a multistate outbreak linked to contaminated liquid docusate products, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised healthcare providers against the use of these products.
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CDC Issues Warning About Multidrug-Resistant Candida Species
July 7th 2016In a recent clinical alert, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned US healthcare facilities about Candida auris, an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) yeast that is causing severe, and sometimes fatal, healthcare-associated infections.
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Are Phage-based Treatments the Solution for C. difficile Infection?
July 4th 2016A new bacteriophage (phage) treatment-based approach to fighting Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) colonization and infection may one day provide for effective treatment against this potentially lethal disease.
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Elizabethkingia Outbreak Source Remains a Mystery
June 24th 2016During a session at the ASM Microbe 2016 conference on Monday, June 20, 2016, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officer presented data on the investigation of the Elizabethkingia anophelis outbreak that started in Wisconsin and spread to two other states.
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