Infection Control News

SEATTLE — Antibiotic use in long-term care facilities declined significantly over the course of almost a decade, although there was an uptick in 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found.

SEATTLE — Prior nonprescription antibiotic use within the last year predicted similar use in the future, according to data presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference.

SEATTLE — An epidemiologist whose hospital responded to a recent measles outbreak described how the hospital was able to eliminate patient exposures with an intervention bundle that used electronic medical records.

SEATTLE — In this video, Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH, attending physician and hospital epidemiologist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about a new project to improve nosocomial infection prevention.

SEATTLE — Veterans commonly acquire multidrug-resistant organisms during stays in Veterans Health Administration community living centers, researchers found.

SEATTLE — The first U.S. cluster of pediatric Candida auris cases was likely caused by shared mobile medical equipment that was not properly sanitized after being used for adult patients, an investigation found.

SEATTLE — New hospital-onset cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection outpaced community-onset cases after England and Scotland stopped requiring hospitals to test asymptomatic patients at admission, researchers reported.

SEATTLE — Veterans Affairs facilities that opted not to suspend active surveillance and contact precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic reported fewer health care-associated MRSA infections, especially in ICUs, researchers found.

A survey of health care workers at nonacute-care facilities during the spring of 2021 revealed insight into their COVID-19 experiences, knowledge, beliefs and perception of risk during the pandemic.

The United States will commit $5 billion to develop new COVID-19 vaccines and treatments that will work against future variants of SARS-CoV-2, Biden administration officials told reporters.