Follow our live coverage via news alerts, tweets and this very blog as we cover the landmark 40th annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) June 8-10 in Fort Lauderdale. With some 2,500 infection…
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) face an unpredictable array of risks every day, from fires and hazardous materials to infectious diseases and sharps-related injuries. Who better to address infectious threats than the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, which has developed…
The dramatic reduction of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in hospitals in the United Kingdom is putting considerable pressure on American infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists to follow suit with similar success. Yet despite increasing infection prevention efforts in many…
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) are urging Congress to sustain and increase funding to “detect dangerous infectious diseases and protect the American public from healthcare-associated infections…
Baltimore: While Clostridium difficile has clearly won several of the early rounds, infection preventionists are making progress in the fight to prevent C. diff infections (CDIs), according to a new survey by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology…
Baltimore: Despite increasing infection prevention efforts, Clostridium difficile remains a persistent threat to patient safety in the nation’s hospitals, according to a survey released today by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The APIC survey found that 70% of infection…
Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, director of Infection Prevention and Quality at Methodist Hospital for Surgery in Addison, TX, has been elected the 2013 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Excited to take…
Find out October 15 during a webinar honoring one exemplary hospital – as yet unannounced – that has “achieved sustainable improvements” in infection prevention. The winner is being recognized for helping to achieve the goals outlined through the Department of Health…
Two of the nation’s leading infection prevention groups expressed support for the increasing alignment of reimbursement with clinical quality improvement, though warning that the electronic reporting required in this process is going to be something of a work in progress….
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the first annual Partnership in Prevention Award. Nominations will…