Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention

I spent about 2 hours with the new CDC HAI Progress Report – loosen your belt, it’s a big meal!  We probably had mixed perceptions about the recent alert to the 2016 HA progress report. Loads of information and analysis condensed down to a handful of...

This is a guest post by Daniel Livorsi MD and Heather Schacht Reisinger PhD from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the Iowa City VA Health Care System
Our research group recently published a qualitative investigation of hand hygiene in JAMA Network Open. The study describes real-life barriers encountered by 8 VA hospitals in their use of audit-and-feedback to improve hand hygiene compliance. For anyone...

September 28, 2018 marks 90 years since Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin as an effective antimicrobial which would soon save millions of lives. He warned soon afterwards that unless we used penicillin judiciously, we would see antibiotic resistance...

I always assume that in any highly intelligent, over-educated, opinionated group of people (my people!), there will be Monty Python fans...so I'd like to use John Cleese to change the subject and post a shameless plug.
As many of you (but not enough) know, the SHEA Education and Research Foundation sponsors a scholarship program for people who are interested in getting specialized training in developing, managing or improving antibiotic stewardship programs.  The funds...