In response, the CDC launched the “Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes.” The guidelines support theNational Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-resistant Bacteriaand expand upon existing recommendations that all acute care hospitals...
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new resource: Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes, which has been developed to guide improvement in antibiotic prescribing ...
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With the arrival of vaccines and an aggressive effort to get residents immunized, cases and deaths plummeted and nursing homes emerged from lockdown. But COVID-19 has not been wiped out. As of the week ending July 4, there were 410 residents sickened nationwide and 146 who died. Colorado ...
(HealthDay)—Among residents and staff members in U.S. nursing homes, the rates of COVID-19 increased in June and July, then decreased by September, and increased again by late November, paralleling trends in surrounding communities, according to researc
Today on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog Nimalie Stone, MD, medical epidemiologist in CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, discusses CDC’s new resource, the Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes, to support nursing home efforts to improve antibiotic use. The CDC...
Modeling the impacts of antiviral prophylaxis strategies in mitigating seasonal influenza outbreaks in nursing homes. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2023; DOI 10.1093/cid/ciad764. *Contributed equally There are no original data associated with this work. The findings and conclusions of this report are ...
also directly access the new infection tracking system for long-term care facilities in CDCs National Healthcare Safety Network, and the innovative infection prevention tools and resources developed as part of the partnership between CDC and the Advancing Excellence in Americas Nursing Homes Campaign (...
Nursing homes can coordinate delivery of vaccination services and pay attention to the health monitoring of senior citizens. Once respiratory symptoms such as fever and cough are found, the elderly should be sent to hospital for treatment in time and avoid physical contact with...
research focuses on aging. "I have heard anecdotally from somenursing homesthat—like many aspects of the economy andhealth care—there is a shortage of pharmacists. They're trying to serve thegeneral publicand don't have the staff to send people out to nursing homes to run in-house ...