Hospital Infection Control & Prevention
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APIC 2023: IP Reinvention Includes Diverse Initiatives
Although the prime mission of protecting patients and healthcare personnel remains the goal, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is undertaking an ambitious agenda of initiatives as part of a post-pandemic reassessment and reinvention.
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Anti-Vaxxers, Misinformation Have Science Under Siege
The antivaccine movement and its attendant misinformation campaigns have science on the run at the cost of thousands of lives, Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, warned recently at the 2023 conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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HCV: The Cure Is Here, but Thousands Still Dying
About 2 million people in the United States are living with an infectious disease that has been curable for a decade but remains the leading cause of liver cancer and kills about 15,000 people annually: hepatitis C.
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APIC Calls on Congress to Act on LTC Infections
In a strongly worded letter to Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology said action must be taken to protect frail residents of nursing homes.
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APIC 2023: No Hospital Is an Island
‘Isolated rural areas don’t have equal access to healthcare’
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Lax Infection Control Suspected in Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
Infection control lapses, including the contamination of multidose vials of anesthetic, are suspected in a fungal meningitis outbreak that exposed about 200 American patients who received epidural injections this year in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico.
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Multidose Vials Linked to HCV Spread in Clinic
An outbreak of hepatitis C virus among four patients at a Los Angeles pain clinic in September 2022 likely was caused by improper use of needles and multidose vials of local anesthetic.
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Antibiotic Stewardship Must Overcome Deeply Held Dogma
Antibiotic therapy is steeped in dogma from case-series studies conducted in the 1940s and 1950s, which generated “low-quality” but persistent evidence before the era of widespread clinical trials, Emily Spivak, MD, said at the 2023 conference of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
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CMS Ends COVID Shot Mandate for HCWs
On Nov. 4, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began requiring healthcare workers to receive at least the initial series of COVID-19 vaccine. After considerable hue and cry — marked by lawsuits and resignations — the requirement was officially rescinded on June 5, 2023.
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APIC Supports Ending CMS Vaccine Mandate
In a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology supported the end of mandated COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers and suggested adding two key hospital infection risks as quality indicators.