Infectious Disease

• In the Journals

• Low risk of adverse events, infection after anti-TNF therapy in TKR patients with RA

• April 8, 2013
• Researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery found a low rate of infection and adverse events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who undergo total...More »

• Higher nursing standards led to decrease in infection risk in infants

• April 3, 2013
• Eileen Lake, PhD, RN, of the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues found in a recent study that very low birth weight infants born in hospitals that ......More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• S. aureus vaccine increased infection-related mortality in surgical patients

• April 2, 2013
• An investigational vaccine to prevent Staphylococcus aureus did not reduce the incidence of postoperative S. aureus infections after cardiothoracic...More »

• In the Journals

• Bacterial infection increased cognitive impairment among cirrhotic patients

• March 28, 2013
• Patients with cirrhosis who developed bacterial infection were at significantly increased risk for cognitive impairment, according to recent results.
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• In the Journals

• E. coli ST131 dominates health care-associated infections

• March 25, 2013
• Data from a retrospective cohort indicate that Escherichia coli sequence type 131 was the dominant clonal group responsible for infections in the health...More »

• In the Journals

• Inappropriate antimicrobial prescriptions common among hemodialysis outpatients

• Infectious Disease News, April 2013
• Nearly one-third of parenteral antimicrobial use among patients in outpatient hemodialysis units was classified as inappropriate, researchers reported in...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• SSI rates dropped with presurgical skin wash, antibiotic use during pediatric spine deformity surgery

• March 21, 2013
• CHICAGO — Best practice guidelines recently implemented in an orthopedic program in New York that is focused on high-risk pediatric spine cases may...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• Prescriber, not patient characteristics influenced antibiotic duration

• March 19, 2013
• In long-term care facilities, patients are often prescribed a long duration of antibiotics based on the prescriber’s preference, not patient...More »

• CDC briefing on CRE infections

• March 9, 2013
• CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, discusses the burden of drug-resistant bacteria, CRE. Approximately half of patients who acquire bloodstream infections ......More »

• Directors Briefing CRE Infections and Antibiotic Resistance

• March 8, 2013
• CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, discusses the burden of drug-resistant bacteria, CRE. Approximately half of patients who acquire bloodstream infections ......More »

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