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C. diff
C. diff in Our Kids: A Call to Action
Guest blog post for CDC by Christian Lillis, co-founder of the NY-based patient safety organization, Peggy Lillis Foundation. Christian is a member of CU’s Safe Patient Project activist network.
Categories: C. diff
Tags: C. diff, CDC, Christian Lillis, Peggy Lillis Foundation
Severe diarrheal illness in children linked to antibiotics prescribed in doctor’s offices
“The majority of pediatric Clostridium difficile infections, which are bacterial infections that cause severe diarrhea and are potentially life-threatening, occur among children in the general community who recently took antibiotics prescribed in doctor’s offices for other conditions, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published this week in Pediatrics. “
Study Shows Healthcare Workers’ Hands Contaminated with C. difficile After Routine Care
“A new study finds nearly 1 in 4 healthcare workers’ hands were contaminated with Clostridium difficile spores after routine care of patients infected with the bacteria. “
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff, C. difficile
Doctors create ‘poop pills’ that transfer feces from healthy people into guts of patients with infections
“Doctors have found a way of putting healthy people’s poop into pills to cure serious gut infections – a less invasive way of carrying out ‘fecal transplants’.”
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff, fecal transplants
C. Diff Rates Doubled in Decade
Researcher: The rate of Clostridium difficile infections in U.S. hospitals nearly doubled in the decade between 2001 and 2010
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Patient story: Dexter family turns loss into activism
The Dexter family shares their story of losing the “matriarch” of their family to a ravaging C.diff infection.
Categories: Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Clostridium difficile Leaves the Hospital—What’s Next?
NEJM study suggests that community acquired c. difficile comes from health care settings.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Fecal Transplant: FDA Wants Regulation
Fecal transplants have been successful in the treatment of the antibiotic resistant bacteria C-difficile. Should the FDA be regulating this as a biologic?
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff
Targeted screening can reduce spread of C. diff infection
New study published in the May issue of American Journal of Infection Control finds testing patients with 3 risk factors when they’re admitted could help hospitals reduce spread of C.diff infection.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections
Tags: C. diff, C.diff screening, infection control
“It’s not just statistics…it’s somebody’s Mom”
Hospital infections leave a lasting impact on the individuals and families who had to experience them. For Mary Brennan-Taylor, hospital infections took the life of her mother, Alice Brennan, who passed away in 2009 after entering the hospital for pain and swelling in her leg.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Acquired Infections, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, video, VRE
