A low-intensity, multifaceted stewardship intervention implemented at nursing homes was associated with improved antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infections (UTIs), US researchers reported today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported one more Ebola infection, raising the number of recent cases in Beni to seven.
The patient is a 39-year-old woman who had been in isolation since her daughter died from Ebola on April 20, Reuters reported yesterday. Her illness raises the outbreak total to 3,462, including 2,267 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) online dashboard.
Applying diagnostic stewardship to molecular testing for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) at a hospital system in California was associated with to a significant reduction in testing, cases, and costs, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The findings suggest that prevention efforts, particularly in hospitals, are yielding benefits.
A study today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology reports a high prevalence of antibiotic allergy labels (AALs) in Australian nursing homes.
A computerized clinical support tool implemented at an academic medical center helped reduce rates of Clostridioides difficile testing without an associated increase in adverse events in patients whose tests were prevented, researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine reported today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The drugs were linked to a more than 70% increase in the odds of intestinal colonization with resistant bacteria.
A major reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones has driven a 12% decrease in total antibiotic use in Canadian hospitals in recent years, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard, only one new case of Ebola has been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since Feb 6, raising the outbreak total to 3,431 confirmed cases. The WHO also noted 123 probable cases, and 441 suspected cases still under investigation.
Since the outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces began in August 2018, 2,249 people have died from Ebola.
After US flu activity peaked at the end of 2019 and fell for 2 straight weeks, it has now increased measurably for the second straight week, while the number of flu-related deaths in children rose by 14, to 68, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its weekly FluView report today.
