The Safe Patient Project is a Consumers Union campaign focused on eliminating medical harm, improving FDA oversight of prescription drugs and promoting disclosure laws that give information to consumers about health care safety and quality.
C. diff
The Low-Down Dozen: Consumer Reports flags twelve hospitals for low infection prevention ratings
Today Consumers Union, the policy in action arm of Consumer Reports, is launching “The Low-Down Dozen,” a social media project to call attention to twelve hospitals that earned low scores for avoiding five infections in our latest ratings.
Categories: C. diff, Hospital Infections/ Superbugs, MRSA
Tags: C. diff, Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports health ratings, Consumers Union, hospital infection ratings, hospital infections, Low down dozen hospitals, MRSA, surgical site infections
CDC Study highlights the dangers of C. difficile infections
Safe Patient Project is available for interviews on the subject also collect stories from patients who have experiences with C. difficile infections.
Categories: Hospital Infections/ Superbugs
Tags: antibiotic resistance, C. diff, C. difficile, CDC
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 Infections/ Superbugs
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 Infections/ Superbugs
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 Infections/ Superbugs
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 Infections/ Superbugs
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 Infections/ Superbugs
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 Infections/ Superbugs
Tags: C. diff
