Today's Top 20 Clinical Leadership & Infection Control Stories
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CDC director resigns from 4 groups to comply with ethics rules
Newly appointed CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, resigned from his positions at four groups, including a gene therapy biotechnology company and AIDS organization, to meet government ethics rules, according to Dr. Redfield's financial disclosures obtained by The Washington Post. - 4/18/18 -
Mandatory sepsis reporting in New York linked to 13% increase in reported cases
A study focused on the repercussions of New York enacting mandatory sepsis reporting regulations shows a significant increase in the number of sepsis cases being reported to the state's clinical database. - 4/18/18 -
Texas hospital staff find fetus in dirty linen cart
Staff members at Wichita Falls, Texas-based United Regional Health Care found a fetus in a dirty linen cart early morning on April 17, according to KAUZ. - 4/18/18 -
Rice University students to test AR app for Parkinson's patients
Six bioengineering students from Houston-based Rice University created an augmented reality app to support patients with Parkinson's disease. - 4/18/18 -
Physicians battle first drug-resistant typhoid outbreak: 8 things to know
The first known epidemic of extensively drug-resistant typhoid has infected approximately 850 people in Pakistan across 14 districts since 2016 and is anticipated to disseminate globally, according to data from the National Institute of Health Islamabad cited by The New York Times. - 4/17/18 -
Medical journal study inflated maternal death rate in Texas
A 2016 study found Texas' maternal mortality rate doubled over two years, marking an unprecedented increase that made national headlines and spurred legislative action. However, a new study suggests the state's maternal death rate was actually much lower than originally reported, according to CNN. - 4/17/18 -
Study: Combination therapy nearly doubles lung cancer survival time
Compared to patients treated only with chemotherapy, the combination of an immunotherapy drug and chemotherapy almost doubled the survival time for some lung cancer patients, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. - 4/17/18 -
Nearly 57% of nursing facility patients harbor multidrug-resistant organisms at enrollment, discharge
A study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases examined the prevalence of multidrug-resistant organism colonization in nursing facility patients. - 4/17/18 -
5 Joint Commission hospital requirements most commonly cited as "not compliant" in 2017
The Joint Commission identified the requirements most commonly cited as "not compliant" during surveys for various types of accreditation and certification for calendar year 2017. - 4/17/18 -
Full-time Banner Health nurse takes second in Boston Marathon: 6 things to know
Sarah Sellers, a 26-year-old full time nurse anesthetist at Tucson, Ariz.-based Banner Health Center, stunned the nation April 16 when she crossed the finish line in second place at the prestigious Boston Marathon as a virtual unknown, according to The Washington Post. - 4/17/18 -
Case review reveals more erroneous cancer diagnoses at Wake Forest Baptist
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., has determined additional patients were affected by pathology lab oversight issues that resulted in patients receiving erroneous cancer diagnoses. - 4/16/18 -
Over 200 million eggs recalled due to salmonella outbreak
A company recalled approximately 206 million eggs after a salmonella outbreak was linked to one of its North Carolina farms, according to The New York Times. - 4/16/18 -
Prepackaged salad recalled following E. coli outbreak that sickened dozens
A food manufacturer in Pennsylvania is recalling over 8,000 pounds of prepackaged salad products following an Escherichia coli outbreak that spread across several states and sickened dozens of people, according to The Washington Post. - 4/16/18 -
2-intervention bundle reduced hospital-onset C. diff rates by 82.3%
Researchers developed an agent-based model of Clostridium difficile transmission and used it to evaluate the comparative clinical effectiveness of nine single interventions and eight multiple-intervention bundles. They published their findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases. - 4/16/18 -
27 women at South Carolina hospital develop bacterial infection after surgery: 8 things to know
After undergoing surgery at Charleston, S.C.-based Roper Hospital in 2016 and 2017, 27 women developed a waterborne bacterial infection that required a string of antibiotic treatments and additional surgeries, reports The Post and Courier. - 4/16/18 -
Kaiser hospital sends 90-year-old patient home in cab, fails to notify family
Kaiser Permanente San Jose (Calif.) Medical Center discharged a 90-year-old patient with failing kidneys and sent him home in a taxicab without notifying his family, according to NBC Bay Area. - 4/13/18 -
Measles, norovirus and more: 4 recent and ongoing outbreaks
Different parts of the United States have experienced outbreaks caused by bacteria and viruses in recent months. Some of these events have approached epidemic levels, while others have been comparatively small in scale. Four such outbreaks are detailed below. - 4/13/18 -
Only 62% of reported facility-onset C. diff are accurately diagnosed
A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control investigated potential over-reporting of healthcare facility-onset Clostridium difficile infection. - 4/13/18 -
FDA conducting criminal investigation on unauthorized herpes vaccine research
The FDA launched a criminal investigation into research conducted by Springfield-based Southern Illinois University School of Medicine professor William Halford, PhD, who injected people with an unauthorized herpes vaccine he developed, according to Kaiser Health News. - 4/13/18 -
Human error source of Denver hospital's sterilization breach
Hospital officials at Porter Adventist Hospital on April 12 identified human error as the source of an infection control breach that potentially exposed 5,800 orthopedic and spine surgery patients to infection, reports Fox31. - 4/13/18
