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Infection Control and Prevention

• ICPA Inc., completes successful Pilot Test of Automated Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections to the Centers for Disease Control. December 18, 2007
  
  
• A national estimate of the number of HAI and deaths in U.S. hospitals Klevens RM, et al. Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals, 2002. Public Health Reports 122:2, 160-166. March–April 2007
  
  
• Surveillance Works in CLAB Infection Reduction
  Provonost, Peter, et.al. An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU. The New England Journal of Medicine 355:25, 2725-2732. December 2006.
  
  
• What Hospitals Should Do to Prepare for an Influenza Pandemic, December 2006
  
  
• National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza
  
  
• HAI Mandatory Reporting in TX - Advisory Committee Recommendations Recommendations and Key Findings of Texas Advisory Panel on Health Care-Associated Infections, October 2006.
  
  
• Three uses of the standardized infection ratio (SIR) in infection control
  Request a reprint of the latest on the use of the standardized infection ratio in infection control.

• JCAHO – New IC Standard – Influenza Vaccine
  Beginning January 2007, facilities must: establish a vaccine program; provide vaccines on-site; educate staff re influenza; evaluate vaccination rates; implement enhancements.
  
  
• Infection rate reporting and the EHR miles apart
  A puzzle wrapped up in a riddle
  Healthcare Purchasing News – Online
  by Susan Cantrell, ELS
  January 2006

Deborah Martin, CEO, ICPA, discusses how AICE is used for mandatory reporting of healthcare-associated infections and the impact of the Electronic Health Record on infection control.

• Eliminating the Paper Chase
  How Informatics Helps the ICP
  Infection Control Today
  by Jennifer Schraag
  January 2006
  
  Deborah Martin, CEO, ICPA, emphasizes the importance of performing targeted IC surveillance as opposed to total house surveillance. Targeted surveillance is the primary evidence-based practice of identifying and reporting HAIs.
  
  
• Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections. Recommendations of HICPAC, February 28, 2005.
  
  
• ICPA, Inc. Releases New Tools to Improve Patient Safety and Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, February 21, 2005.
  
  
  
• Investigation: Unhealthy Hospitals
  by Michael J. Berens
  Chicago Tribune

Following are links to a series of articles about hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) published by The Chicago Tribune in 2002. These articles are today still broadly recognized as having a significant and long-term impact on acute-care infection control measures and regulations.

ICPA is not affiliated with the Chicago Tribune and does not receive any of the fees they charge for these articles. We are providing these links as a service to our customers.

The Chicago Tribune requires a free registration to its website and charges $2.95 for one archived article or $5.95 for 5 articles (over a 24 hour period). To access the article of your choice: double click on the link below. Type the name of the article into the Search box.

Patients suffer as agency shields troubled hospitals; Clean bills of health are awarded despite deaths, infection outbreaks

How the Tribune analyzed infection cases

Virus attacked Chicago children in outbreak kept under wraps

Infection epidemic carves deadly path

Nurse leads hospital's war on germs

Lax procedures put infants at high risk

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