Guest blogger, Dr Phil Norville (bio below) writes… Wastewater systems (sinks, showers and more recently toilets) are attracting attention as their role in healthcare associated infections (HCA...
I have posted before about the “postcode lottery” and it’s influence on rates of MRSA, affecting deprived postcodes (or zipcodes!) more than others. But this issue is wider than regional in...
I’ve never been terribly good at philosophy but I’m going to have a go, because this is a conversation that we need to have, especially as we see the re-emergence of measles. This post has be...
Read an interesting study in JHI with a novel design that I thought I’d share. The study team evaluated the scale of COVID-19 outbreaks across three hospitals in Wales based on characteristics ...
https://reflectionsipc.com/2024/02/02/covid-19-moving-the-problem-around-the-hospital/
A new study in JHI uses a pragmatic time series analysis to provide some data to suggest that stopping a universal mask mandate at St. George’s Hospital in London did not result in an increase ...
The Christmas BMJ usually has something to do with infection or infection control. But this year it has excelled, with an article all about bacterial contamination of coffee machines! So, next ti...
Remember all of those difficult decisions during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic? Which patient gets the ventilator? Who gets the single room? What has to stop to keep on top of the continuous...
Colleagues from GSTT in collaboration with the Royal Free and St. George’s have just published a new paper evaluating the transmission dynamics of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 vs. previous variants in ho...
I had the pleasure of doing a talk at Infection Prevention 2023 in Liverpool today, running down the top 10 scientific articles influencing our IPC practice over the past year. You can download m...
This post follows hot on the heels of several other posts highlighting the potential benefits of water free care. A new retrospective cohort study in German ICUs has concluded that patients cared...
https://reflectionsipc.com/2023/10/06/water-free-critical-care-demands-our-attention/