United States
Government Accountability Office
GAO Report to the Chairman, Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, House of
Representatives.
Health-Care-Associated Infections in
Hospitals. Leadership Needed from HHS
to Prioritize Prevention Practices and
Improve Data on These Infections.
www.gao.gov/new.items/d08283.pdf
Potentially Deadly Infection Doubles Among Hospital
Patients Over Last 5 Years.
AHRQ News and Numbers, Release date: April 23, 2008
www.ahrq.gov/news/nn/nn042308.htm
Fight MRSA! Coalition Launched
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=healthcheck&id=5751049
A Quest to Eliminate MRSA at the Veterans
Health Administration’s Hospitals in Pittsburgh by Arvind Singhal and Karen
Greiner
www.positivedeviance.org/projects/pittmrsa/VAPHS_Singhal_Greiner.pdf
Accountability in mind. Sisters watched
their mother suffer from infection in hospital.
www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080302/FRONTPAGE/803020416&template=single
Saving Monica. She had just given birth and was full of joy. Then a deadly
bacteria began ravaging her body, triggering a frantic race to keep her alive.
But at what cost? by Doug Most
www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/02/10/saving_monica/
U.S. Hospitals Fight Super-Bugs, Finally :
19 States Now Require Tighter Controls
www.washingtonindependent.com/view/u-s-hospitals-fight
California lags in reporting of hospitals'
drug-resistant infection rates
www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-infections24feb24,1,4918975.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Attorney General, Patient Advocates Announce
Legislation To Reduce And Report MRSA Infections In Hospitals
http://media-newswire.com/release_1059829.html
MRSA in Illinois: Descriptive Analysis of
Hospital Discharge Data 2002-2006
www.idph.state.il.us/health/infect/MRSA_Data_02-06.pdf
Why Aren’t The Feds Fighting MRSA Harder?
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/07/eveningnews/main3469009.shtml
Infection Killed Almost 19,000 in 2005,
Study Says
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/health/16cnd-infect.html?ex=1193198400&en=f66812445e89f4ab&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Deadly
superbug is here — why isn't it tracked?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2003958238_mrsa18m.html
Few US
hospitals screen patients for dangerous
staph ``superbug''
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/few-us-hospitals-screen-patients-for/n20071024161509990017
Want to stop
superbugs? Clean up hospitals
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071030/us_nm/infection_hospitals_dc_2
Screenings for staph are
now the law
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-mrsaaug21,0,3659820.story
Hospitals to screen for
risky bacteria
Some Metro Detroit facilities hope checks for
drug-resistant infections will save lives and money.
www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/LIFESTYLE03/708130312/1003/METRO
Infections with
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in
U.S. Hospitals 1993-2005
www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb35.pdf
Serious infection
won't be tracked by hospitals
Dangerous staph cases don't yet need to be reported
by health facilities
by
Liv Osby,
losby@greenvillenews.com,
www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707010324
Drug-resistant
germ escapes hospital confines
www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-04-22-drug-resistant-germ_N.htm?csp=34
Simple measures reduce infections
Hopkins study finds catheter rules, clean hands aid hospitals
www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.infection28dec28,0,7609251.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
New Report Sheds Sobering Light on Hospital Infections
Infections Acquired During
Hospital Stays Kill More People Than Breast Cancer, Auto Accidents
and Aids Combined
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2652355&page=1
By DAN CHILDS, ABC News Medical Unit
To Catch a Deadly Germ www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/opinion/14mccaughey.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Resistant staph threat grows for high school athletes -
Schools taking steps to protect students
PA's hospital-acquired infection battleBy Christopher Guadagnino, Ph.D.
www.physiciansnews.com/cover/206.html
Infections from hospitals bring demands for
action: Bill would require public reports
By Liv Osby, HEALTH WRITER
www.greenvillenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060213/NEWS05/602130318/1004/NEWS01
Killer intestinal bug stalks NE Ohio
hospital patients: Virulent strain now
blamed for increasing number of deaths
www.cleveland.com/medical/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1124962629227260.xml&coll=2
