Safe Healthcare For All

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) is a professional society that improves public health by establishing infection-prevention measures and supporting antibiotic stewardship among healthcare providers.

Event

Media Training Workshop

A workshop designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to excel in communicating complex health and science concepts.

On-Demand

Advancing Health Equity through Antimicrobial Stewardship

An educational program designed for learners to develop skills in building multidisciplinary partnerships that aid in identifying and addressing health inequities as they relate to antimicrobial stewardship.

Resources

Prevention CHKC

Prevention CHKC is designed to train frontline healthcare personnel, defined as those “responsible for direct patient care” in best practices to prevent and control HAIs and pathogens that can spread in the healthcare setting.

News

SHEA Continues to Emphasize the Importance of Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee’s Process for CDC Guidelines

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) supports the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and its members as they work to enact…

Impact Safe Healthcare this Giving Tuesday!

This Giving Tuesday, the SHEA Foundation invites you to be a part of something truly transformative. The SHEA Foundation is dedicated to advancing the fields…

SHEA Emphasizes Importance of Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee’s Recommendation on CDC Guidelines

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) stands by its support for the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and its members work…

Connect with SHEA

Social Media

WHO is inviting you to share innovative stories/experiences in developing and delivering training on IPC, including hand hygiene, in health care settings. For more info visit: https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/share-your-innovative-ipc-hand-hygiene-training-story!
#WHHD2024

Join us today at 3pm ET for our monthly Town Hall. Our panelists will be discussing the updated CDC Community Respiratory Virus guidance.
Register here https://bit.ly/3ToZRZ4 or join us live on Facebook. See you there!

Join @CDCgov leadership today at 11AM EST to learn more about CDC's updated guidance on how people can protect themselves and their communities from respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.

CDC updates #COVID19 guidance for community settings. No change in recommendations for clinics, hospitals and other health care settings. @CDCgov
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/01/health/cdc-covid-isolation-recommendations/index.html?Date=20240301&

More from my @vahsrd Merit Award. HALF (!!!) of #antibiotics prescribed by #dentists have no guidelines recommending when (if ever) antibiotics are indicated to prevent post-surgical complications.

New podcast! 🎧

Whole genome sequencing surveillance: routine part of infection prevention?

@DavecNyc talks w/ @SundermannAJ, @waleedjavaidmd, Andie Lee, Sebastiaan Van Hal & Graham Snyder on the promises and barriers of this technology from recent publications

Links below ⤵️

New from @dr_pbailey, @gonzalobearman, @Dr_Mike_Stevens

👏🫧 Wearing gloves in contact isolation rooms affects hand hygiene performance.

📄: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.24

EIC @gonzalobearman and deputy @PriyaNori write in @CIDJournal about "Minimizing Low-value, Uncompensated Work in Academic Infectious Diseases: A Six Step Program."

Check out amazing SIDP member, Dr. Robbie Christian, as she is highlighted by ASHP for her outstanding contributions as an ID Pharmacist & Educator! 💙

Proud of this self-proclaimed Bacteria Fighter! 🦠 💊 **trademark & make t-shirts plz**
Read more: https://buff.ly/3UUZpTc

Intravenous amoxicillin-clavulanate allowed safe and effective de-escalation from piperacillin-tazobactam and carbapenems when added to hospital formulary at two Canadian hospitals. 🇨🇦

New from @NenadMacesic et al

The plasmids keep causing problems! A new publication by Macesic et al. addresses a rising #NDM issue at their institution due to spread of epidemic plasmids.

📄: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.8

New @HTorresMD, @DavecNyc, @msimon6720, @HarjotNY

Disinfectant duel: When ammonium & alcohol-based disinfectants meet their continuously active counterparts, who comes out the winner?

In ambulatory locations, it was a draw. Talk about a clean fight!

📄: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.27

New from @sudamonas and others

Of antibiotics 💊 prescribed by dentists, 82% were guideline-discordant

➡️ Half prescribed for the prevention of post-surgical complications and in medically compromised where guidelines are not available.

📄: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.13

ICHE JOURNAL
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Published monthly by Cambridge University Press, ICHE publishes original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for professionals in epidemiology or infection prevention and control programs in hospitals and healthcare facilities.

ASHE JOURNAL
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE) is a fully Gold Open Access journal that publishes original research that contributes to the fields of antimicrobial stewardship and the prevention of healthcare-associated infections.

SHEA Spring Conference

SHEA Spring will include topics on healthcare epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship, long-term care, research methods, clinical microbiology, patient safety and quality, implementation science, and COVID-19. It also provides a wide range of opportunities for networking with peers and experts in the field.

Upcoming Events

Town Hall

April 7, 2024 | 3:00 pm ET

The SHEA Town Hall is evolving to directly tackle the most pertinent challenges that our members face. Our expert panelists are broadening their scope to…

Town Hall

June 9, 2024 | 3:00 pm EST

The SHEA Town Hall is evolving to directly tackle the most pertinent challenges that our members face. Our expert panelists are broadening their scope to…

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