📢 Hot off the press from @DICON_duke and @Deverick_A: Using optimized statistical process control (SPC) methods for SSI surveillance leads to improved detection of SSI rate increases and deficiencies in best practices for SSI prevention
🆕💥💥 @jamanetworkopen
Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Led Penicillin Allergy Assessment Program and Allergy Delabeling in a 3ry Care Hospital
Phase 1 : Allergy histories
Phase 2 :Allergy histories +Penicillin Skin Testing #IDTwitter
https://t.co/pZfVf8TJIn
From our Pediatric ID Team: Burden of healthcare-associated infections among hospitalized children within community hospitals participating in an infection control network @IbukunMD @pedsteward @beckyasmith79 @Deverick_A
A sneak peak inside the @DCASIP_duke headquarters during the #dicondason2020 virtual symposium with part of the @DASON_duke team. We are missing having the whole team together this time around — hopefully next year we can have a more traditional symposium!
From the @NYTimes: Letter from past and current expert advisors to the CDC warning of the consequences of diverting COVID-19 hospital data from CDC to DHHS https://t.co/ZaSrfJIqi9
Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Community Hospitals https://t.co/ipqIFRkhnC so happy to have this article published in @JAMANetworkOpen and proud of my collaborators in @DCASIP_duke@DASON_duke
Adapting Antibiotic Stewardship to the Community Hospital https://t.co/U9HN4j3vgd Be sure to checkout the excellent and thoughtful accompanying editorial by @danlivorsi@E_Stenehjem and Heather Reisinger. We need more AS trials in community hospitals!
Core Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Community Hospitals https://t.co/TJjpmQ2Ghd Key message: core, active stewardship interventions are feasible in community hospitals, even if no ID expertise. Post-Rx review more feasible and effective than restriction
Last week, we hosted a group from The Centre for Tropical Medicine in Hanoi, Vietnam who are part of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit. they spent the week learning how we combat antimicrobial resistance in the US, as well as teaching us how their programs work.
Please share this with your colleagues! This competitive grant is for early career investigators (within 5 years post training) pursuing a career in healthcare epidemiology and antibiotic stewardship.
Folks still ask me 'Does measles matter- isnt it just a mild rash and fever?'
😷1-2/1000 kids will die. Would you drive your car if 1/1000 death rate? Of course not...
🤒So so easy to spread
💉Infectious 4d BEFORE u get classic rash, so U dont know to self-quarantine...
so yes!