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BI-State Registration Open
08/07/2010

BI-State Registration for Individuals is now open. Please visit the BI-State menu above.

Educational Meeting: 0910-0925: APIC Poster - Streamlining Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Surveillance Methods (Ellen Trovillion, BJC Healthcare) 0930-0940: APIC Poster - A Process for Discontinuation of Contact Precautions (Theresa Sieber, BJH) 0940-1000: APIC Scholarship Presentation - A [ ... ]

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June 17th
01/01/2010

June 17th, 2010
9:00 - 12:00 at St. Luke's Health Institute (click here for directions) Agenda: 9:00 - 9:45: General meeting 9:45 - 10:00: Break 10:00 - 12:00: Education Program
10:00 - 11:15: "The Joint Commission's NPSGs: Focus on Infection Prevention" - Kathleen Stoessel, RN, BSN, MS 11:20 - 1 [ ... ]

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Save the Date!
05/23/2010

The 15th Annual BI-State Infectious Disease Conference will be held on October 15th, 2010. More details will be posted in the BI-State ID Conference menu found above.

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AHRQ Report

ahrq APIC/SHEA/IDSA response to AHRQ National Healthcare Quality Report:

"We are concerned that any report coming from a government agency based solely on the use of administrative data, commonly referred to as billing/coding data, paints an inaccurate picture of healthcare-associated infections for the public. In contrast, another Department of Health and Human Services agency -- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – is preparing to release epidemiologically sound, surveillance data based on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). Multiple studies have concluded that administrative coding data appears to be a poor tool for accurately identifying infections."

Read the full response here.