Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

Type: Organization

Name: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Beebe names two clinical nurse educators to ...

Patient Care Services at Beebe Medical Center announces another initiative in Beebe’s efforts to continually improve the quality and safety of the care it provides for patients. Patient Care Services has created the clinical nurse educator role that is ... [Published Cape Gazette - May 16 2013]

Entities: Education, Houston (Texas, United States), infections, University Of Delaware

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

US Environmental Protection Agency

STERIPLEX SD® Fights C. diff And Life-threatening Superbugs With Powerful Combination Of Safety And Efficacy

/PRNewswire/ -- sBioMed(®)( )announced today that STERIPLEX SD(®) has been registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and is now cleared for sale in all 50 states. STERIPLEX SD is the first and only broad-spectrum, one-step cleaner/disinfectant ... [Published NewsBlaze - May 13 2013]

Entities: Powerful, Stephen P. MacMillan, US Environmental Protection Agency, Association for Professionals in Infection Cont...

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 2 reports

Advocates Seek Funding for National Network To Track Hospital Infections

On Monday, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology -- along with 29 other health care and patient safety organizations -- asking Congress to allocate funding to support a CDC network for tracking health care-associated ... [Published IHealthBeat - May 09 2013]

Entities: infections, Advocate, Association for Professionals in Infection Cont..., Labor

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Healthcare Coalition Urges Congress to Fund NHSN

Posted in News, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC), Policies and PracticeA broad coalition of healthcare groups, patient safety organizations and for-profit corporations is urging Congress to fully fund the National Healthcare Safety Network ... [Published Infection Control Today - May 08 2013]

Entities: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Care, infections

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Should Hospitals Screen for C. dif Upon Admission?

Posted in News, Infection Control, Industry IssuesWASHINGTON―Testing patients with just three risk factors upon hospital admission has potential to identify nearly three out of four asymptomatic carriers of C. difficile, according to a new study published ... [Published EndoNurse - May 02 2013]

Entities: Clostridium Difficile, Admission, Infection, Patient

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Cutting-edge science to be presented at APIC 40th annual conference: Infection prevention through the decades is conference theme

More than 4,600 attendees will gather June 8-10 in Fort Lauderdale, FL, for the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology... ... [Published Healthcare Purchasing News - May 02 2013]

Entities: Infection, Association for Professionals in Infection Cont..., Fort Lauderdale

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cutting-Edge Science to Be Presented at APIC 40th Annual Conference in Fort Lauderdale

Source Newsroom: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)‘Infection prevention through the decades’ is conference themeNewswise — More than 4,600 attendees will gather June 8-10 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for the 40th ... [Published Newswise - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Infection, Fort Lauderdale, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Hospitals turn to new weapons, but superbugs formidable foes

NEW YORK - They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist. In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous "superbugs" that are hard to treat.The rise ... [Published Scranton Times-Tribune - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Clostridium Difficile, infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Infection, Patient

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 7 reports

Hospitals combat superbugs with germ-zapping 'robots'

They sweep. They swab. They sterilize. And still the germs persist.In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous 'superbugs' that are hard to treat.The rise of these superbugs, ... [Published PJStar.com - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Clostridium Difficile, infections, Infection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

APIC Selects Texas Expert to Lead Revisions to Infection Prevention Text

Patti G. Grota, PhD, RN, CNS-M-S, CIC will serve as clinical editor of the fourth edition of the APIC Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology. Published by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the APIC Text ... [Published Infection Control Today - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Infection, Association for Professionals in Infection Cont..., Epidemiology

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 1 reports

C. Diff Continues to Spread Even with More Preventive Activities

A new study conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) finds that while steps to stop the spread of the intestinal superbug Clostridium difficile-often called C. diff infection or CDI-have increased, they ... [Published Floor Covering Installer - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Clostridium Difficile, Association for Professionals in Infection Cont..., Clostridium

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Baby Boomers Get Hepatitis C Warning, Should You Listen?

Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned baby boomers they should get tested for hepatitis C at least once, and now another organization has issued a similar recommendation. If you are a baby boomer and don’t feel ill, should you ... [Published EMax Health - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Hepatitis C, Association for Professionals in Infection Cont..., ribavirin, Hepatitis, Virus

Quotes

...rates of transmission develop an expanded strategy for targeted C difficile surveillance," said APIC 2013 President Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC. "The study does not indicate necessity for all healthcare facility implementation, yet provides a step-wise progressive approach to help impede C difficile activity when considering the overall epidemiologic impact of transmission."

Targeted Screening for C. difficile Upon Hospital Admission Could Potentially Identify Most ... [Published Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory - May 14 2013]

...treating the environment are offering the most promising, long-term HAI risk reduction," said sBioMed Chief Executive Officer Stephen P MacMillan. "We know that the best way to prevent HAIs is by achieving total microbial kill with STERIPLEX SD, which eliminates superbugs and their future generations."

STERIPLEX SD® Fights C. diff And Life-threatening Superbugs With Powerful Combination Of Safety A ... [Published NewsBlaze - May 13 2013]

They wrote that NHSN and the Prevention Epicenters Program "are critical tools to address scientific gaps in [health care-associated infection] detection and prevention."

Advocates Seek Funding for National Network To Track Hospital Infections [Published IHealthBeat - May 09 2013]

...to healthcare-associated infections and to detect the transmission of infections that are highly resistant to antibiotics," the coalition writes. "HAIs are among the leading causes of preventable harm and death in the United States. CDC estimates that one in 20 hospitalized patients develops an HAI."

Coalition wants more funding for infection control tracking system [Published Fierce Health IT - May 09 2013]

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STERIPLEX SD® Fights C. diff And Life-threateni... [Published NewsBlaze - May 13 2013]
Advocates Seek Funding for National Network To ... [Published IHealthBeat - May 09 2013]
Coalition wants more funding for infection cont... [Published Fierce Health IT - May 09 2013]
Congress Asked to Fund Network to Track Infections [Published Health Data Management - May 08 2013]
Healthcare Coalition Urges Congress to Fund NHSN [Published Infection Control Today - May 08 2013]
Beebe Medical Center Names two Clinical Nurse E... [Published Cape Gazette - May 06 2013]
Should Hospitals Screen for C. dif Upon Admission? [Published EndoNurse - May 02 2013]
Cutting-edge science to be presented at APIC 40... [Published Healthcare Purchasing News - May 02 2013]
Keeping it clean [Published Health Facilities Management - May 01 2013]
Targeted Screening For C. difficile Upon Hospit... [Published theCSRfeed - May 01 2013]
Cutting-Edge Science to Be Presented at APIC 40... [Published Newswise - Apr 30 2013]
IAHCSMM's CS Technician Certification Legislati... [Published Infection Control Today - Apr 30 2013]
Targeted C. difficile screening at hospital adm... [Published EurekAlert! - Apr 30 2013]
U.S. hospitals usher in wave of robot machines ... [Published Global News Canada - Apr 30 2013]
Hospitals turn to new weapons, but superbugs fo... [Published Scranton Times-Tribune - Apr 30 2013]
Hospitals fight superbugs [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 30 2013]
Photos: Hospitals combat superbugs with ‘robots... [Published Yakima Herald Republic - Apr 30 2013]
In medical battle, it's robots vs. superbugs [Published Cape Cod Online - Apr 30 2013]
Robots vs. superbugs [Published South Coast Today - Apr 30 2013]
Robot zaps hospital bugs [Published stuff.co.nz - Apr 29 2013]
Germ-zapping robots battle hospital superbugs [Published King5.com - Apr 29 2013]
APIC Selects Texas Expert to Lead Revisions to ... [Published Infection Control Today - Apr 29 2013]
Use of Superbug-Fighting Products on the Rise [Published Laboratory Equipment - Apr 29 2013]
Hospital robots fight superbugs [Published Adelaide Now - Apr 29 2013]
Hospitals combat superbugs with germ-zapping 'r... [Published PJStar.com - Apr 29 2013]