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Sepsis Awareness Month: Why Sepsis Awareness Is More Important Than Ever

Denise Cardo, MD Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention In these unprecedented times, Sepsis Awareness Month is a moment for us to reflect on and recommit to focusing on the needs of the patient. Sepsis is the body’s extreme Read More >

September 11, 2020 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog30 Comments

Infection Control and Prevention, Sepsis

Advancing Laboratory Diagnostic Stewardship for Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Antibiotic Resistance, and Sepsis

Meeting participants engage in group discussion.

Emily Curren DVM, MPH On December 9, 2019, CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) hosted a meeting at CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on improving patient safety through diagnostic stewardship. Meeting attendees represented academia; federal partners; and professional, industry, and patient representative organizations. The meeting focused on identifying emerging issues in the field of Read More >

March 5, 2020 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog2 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections

Drawing on the past to pave the way for the future

Decennial 2020: Canceled for March The 6th Decennial International Conference on Healthcare Associated Infections will no longer occur March 26 – 30, 2020, in Atlanta, GA. More information is available at https://decennial2020.org/. Read More >

January 15, 2020 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog2 Comments

Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Use (Stewardship), Healthcare-associated infections, Infection Control and Prevention

Healthcare-associated Infections, Infection control conference, Infection control conference Atlanta, Infection Prevention, Infection prevention conference, Infection prevention conference Atlanta

Urgent Care Collaborating to Address Antibiotic Resistance

Laurel Stoimenoff, PT, CHC Chief Executive Officer of the Urgent Care Association The Urgent Care Association (UCA) and its members are concerned about the looming antibiotic resistance crisis. In collaboration with the College of Urgent Care Medicine (CUCM), we have decided to be part of the solution. More than 120 million patients visit urgent care Read More >

November 19, 2019 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog3 Comments

Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Use (Stewardship)

Sepsis Awareness Month: Why Each Person Matters

Denise Cardo, MD Director CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that affects at least 1.7 million adults in the United States each year and causes nearly 270,000 deaths. This is too many lives. While Read More >

September 13, 2019 by CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog12 Comments

Healthcare-associated infections, Sepsis