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Two recent CDC publications show antibiotic prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased across outpatient and nursing home...
Jun 01, 2021 | Kimberly Nalley
The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections & Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens (CORHA), which includes...
May 25, 2021 | Kimberly Nalley
CDC’s Dr. Neuhauser and Pew’s Dr. Hyun share progress that has been made in improving antibiotic stewardship since 2015 and outline...
May 04, 2021 | Kimberly Nalley
A new paper from CDC and the University of Utah published in Clinical Infectious Diseases estimates that the national healthcare costs...
Mar 05, 2021 | Christina Baum
CORHA has released a new resource, two draft chapters from the High-Level Guidance for Outbreaks of Healthcare-Associated Infections...
Jan 25, 2021 | Christina Baum
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antibiotic resistance (AR) request for applications deadline extended to January 6, 2021
Dec 21, 2020 | Christina Baum
A paper today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) describes the first US case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae harboring a...
Dec 17, 2020 | Julia Zigman
Two recent CDC publications show antibiotic prescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased across outpatient and nursing home settings.
The Council for Outbreak Response: Healthcare-Associated Infections & Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens (CORHA), which includes representatives from local health departments on behalf of NACCHO, has released two draft chapters of the CORHA High-Level Guidance for Outbreaks of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens.
CDC’s Dr. Neuhauser and Pew’s Dr. Hyun share progress that has been made in improving antibiotic stewardship since 2015 and outline three key ways to meet targets for improving antibiotic use through antibiotic stewardship programs.
A new paper from CDC and the University of Utah published in Clinical Infectious Diseases estimates that the national healthcare costs associated with infections caused by six antibiotic-resistant pathogens cost more than $4.6 billion each year.
CORHA has released a new resource, two draft chapters from the High-Level Guidance for Outbreaks of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens.
A paper today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) describes the first US case of Neisseria gonorrhoeae harboring a genetic element that confers resistance to a first-line antibiotic.
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