New from CDC: Research questions to close gaps in patient safety

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Research Gaps in Patient & Healthcare Personnel Safety  Priority Research Questions to Drive Improvement

For the first time, CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion is releasing a list of unanswered research questions to drive improvements in patient and healthcare personnel safety, including combating healthcare threats like antimicrobial resistance and sepsis. After investing more than $500 million in healthcare research innovations, we’re hopeful that researchers and partners will join us in accelerating this critical science for patient and healthcare worker safety, using this list to inform decisions such as strategic planning. On any given day, about 1 in 31 hospital patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents have at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and at least 35,000 people die from antimicrobial-resistant infections each year. HAIs can have devastating effects on physical, mental/emotional, and financial health. In addition, they cost billions of dollars in added expenses to the healthcare system.

Answers to these questions will help the U.S. "get to zero" healthcare-associated infections and move the field forward with strategies that will allow for safer and more equitable health care. Read the full list of priority research questions and learn more about CDC’s investments in healthcare research innovations.

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Last chance! Register for AMR Exchange

Hear experts discuss antimicrobial resistance and cancer care

Tomorrow, Learn How Antimicrobial Resistance Impacts Cancer Care

New panelist just added Join us tomorrow, April 9, 2024, at 10 a.m. EDT for CDC’s AMR Exchange, Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance on Cancer Care. Cancer care experts – including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Assistant Director for Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance and Integrated Health Innovation – will discuss how antimicrobial resistance impacts cancer care. Join us to learn more about: How antimicrobial resistance can be a major obstacle for cancer care and cancer survival. The importance of infection prevention and control efforts in health care to limit cancer patient exposure to antimicrobial-resistant germs. The connection between the health of the microbiome (the naturally occurring germs on and in our bodies) and the effectiveness of some cancer therapies. How U.S. and international organizations are strengthening infection prevention efforts and fighting antimicrobial resistance as core components of cancer care. Meet our speakers:

Don’t forget to follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @CDC_AR You can watch the previous AMR Exchange webinar if you missed it.

	I just registered for @CDC_AR’s AMR Exchange webinar on how CDC is addressing antimicrobial resistance in cancer care. Will you join the conversation? Register here: https://bit.ly/3IINTmX

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Clinicians & Antibiotic Stewards: Reduce Health Inequities

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

UC San Diego’s Jacinda C. Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH and CDC’s Lauri Hicks, DO, FACP discuss ways to advance health equity in health care.

Everyone has a role to play in improving equity, whether you are providing clinical care or leading infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship implementation, or an entire healthcare organization. Drs. Jacinda C. Abdul-Mutakabbir, University of California San Diego, and Lauri Hicks, CDC, provide commentary on how individual clinicians, healthcare organizations, and the public health workforce can reduce health inequities in this Safe Healthcare Blog. Learn more about improving antibiotic prescribing and use: www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use.

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Registered yet? AMR Exchange on April 9

Learn how cancer care is impacted by antimicrobial resistance

Join the conversation on the Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance on Cancer Care

Join us Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 10 a.m. EDT for CDC’s AMR Exchange, Impacts of Antimicrobial Resistance on Cancer Care. Antimicrobial resistance can be a major obstacle for cancer care and cancer survival. People receiving cancer treatment are at higher risk for infections and the growing global public health threat of antimicrobial resistance can make infections harder – if not impossible – to treat. Hear how CDC and partners are strengthening infection prevention efforts and combating antimicrobial resistance as core components of cancer care. Meet our speakers:

Don’t forget to follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @CDC_AR You can watch the previous AMR Exchange webinar if you missed it.

	I just registered for @CDC_AR’s AMR Exchange webinar on how CDC is addressing antimicrobial resistance in cancer care. Will you join the conversation? Register here: https://bit.ly/3IINTmX

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Easy to Read Schedules (Parent-friendly Schedules) Now Available and CIIW Recording

The 2024 Easy to Read Schedules, or Parent-friendly Schedules, are now available both in English and Spanish: Vaccine Schedule for Children 6 Years or Younger | CDC Vaccine Schedule for Children, 7 to 18 Years Old | CDC Additionally, the recording and slides of the “2024 Updates to the Child/Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules Webinar” is now live! The webinar recording and slides can be found at: Current Issues in Immunization Webinars. Thank you!

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