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    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Physician ...

    By: Thomas Kim , 2 days ago
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    The Physician Compare Preview Period is Here On October 18, 2017, the Physician Compare 30-day preview period will officially open. Clinicians and groups will have the opportunity to preview their 2016 performance information ...

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    RE: contraindications to probiotics

    By: Alan Sugar , 2 days ago
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    I have an interesting collection of cases with respect to probiotic use. I have had 2 patients in the past several years with intravascular  infection due to Lactobacillus rhamnosus . One had aortic valve endocarditis and took probiotics on advice from ...

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    Examples of Antimicrobial Stewardship Newsletters

    By: Julia Landis , 2 days ago
    Posted in: IDea Exchange

    Hello everyone, I am currently developing my institution's first issue of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Newsletter to be published during U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week on November 13, 2017. Would anyone be willing to share any examples of their ...

New Guidelines Update

Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis

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Practice Guidelines

Member Spotlight

Sophia Koo, MD, SM, FIDSA has been selected as a semifinalist in the first round of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge, a $20 million federal prize competition seeking innovative, rapid point-of-care laboratory diagnostic tests to combat the development and spread of drug resistant bacteria. Dr. Koo will receive $50,000 to develop her concept, “Breath volatile metabolites for the rapid identification of pneumonia etiology,” into a prototype. The proposal outlines a novel approach to community acquired pneumonia (CAP) diagnosis based on distinct differences in the breath volatile metabolite profiles of patients with bacterial vs. viral pneumonia.

Dr. Koo is with Harvard Medical and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is a member of IDSA’s Diagnostics Committee.

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps a Most Wanted list for flu viruses.

  • New diarrhea guidelines stress implications of molecular tests

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    New guidelines for diagnosing and managing infectious diarrhea stress that improved tests are capable of detecting multiple organisms in the ...

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