March 30, 2021
The tool kit was developed by Mildred Kwan, MD, PhD, and Renae Boerneke, PharmD, to educate patients and train healthcare providers to proactively assess penicillin allergies. Delabeling patients who are not truly allergic to penicillins is an important stewardship tool that decreases unnecessary use of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
January 7, 2021
Everyone can be an antimicrobial steward. Here are a few ways healthcare professionals can put antimicrobial stewardship principles into practice.
January 6, 2021
At the Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes (IPSO) National Workshop, December 10-11, 2020, UNC Children’s Hospital was recognized for demonstrating important improvements in outcomes for key sepsis measures.
December 9, 2020
The Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program’s latest newsletter features expert advice from CASP’s lead pharmacist Lindsay Daniels in Clinicians’ Corner, pediatric stewardship news from UNC Children’s Hospital’s Zach Willis and Bill Wilson, how collaboration with Infection Prevention is expected to help keep C. difficile infection rates low, and plans to scale up Antibiotic Time-outs across UNC Hospitals.
August 20, 2020
Claire Farel, MD, MPH, Medical Director of the UNC Infectious Disease Clinic, and Co-Director of the UNC Center for AIDS Research Clinical Core, gave a plenary talk at the 2020 National Ryan White Conference on HIV Care and Treatment.
August 10, 2020
A phase III clinical trial for the vaccine produced by Moderna is seeking 30,000 participants across the country.
July 8, 2020
With facemask donations pouring in and a proliferation of instructional videos for fabricating masks at home, UNC and EPA researchers are collaborating with infection prevention experts to test the performance of masks on campus, with the goal of providing UNC Health workers with the safest available masks at all times. The research collaboration is led by Emily Sickbert-Bennett, PhD, and Phillip Clapp, PhD.
September 28, 2011
Beginning Oct. 1, visitors of patients who are on Contact Precautions will no longer be required to wear gloves and a gown while visiting in the Contact Precautions room. This policy change is consistent with the CDC recommendations for the control of multi-drug resistance bacteria.