Healthcare-Associated Infection Symposium report

Healthcare-associated infection surveillance and bedside alerts.

Expectations and requirements concerning the identification and surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are increasing, calling for differentiated automated approaches. In an attempt to bridge the "definition swamp" of these infections and serve the needs of different users, we improved the monitoring of nosocomial infections (MONI) software to create better surveillance reports...

Clinical Interventional Oncology Symposium And Integrative Healthcare Symposium.

We focus on liver-directed cancer therapy and the role of yittrium-90, as well as one clinician's controversial position against routine use of opioids for chronic pain.

Ear necrosis syndrome in weaning pigs associated with PCV2 infection: A case report

Porcine necrotic ear syndrome (PNES) in pigs has been reported as an increasing health problem in many countries with intensive pig farming. The etiology of this disease is complex and the presumed triggering factors can be divided into infectious and non-infectious agents. The present report describes a case of Porcine Circovirus type 2 (PCV2), infection associated with lesions of PNES at the ...

Report of a Symposium

Projected Lifetime Healthcare Costs Associated with HIV Infection

OBJECTIVE Estimates of healthcare costs associated with HIV infection would provide valuable insight for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of possible prevention interventions. We evaluate the additional lifetime healthcare cost incurred due to living with HIV. METHODS We used a stochastic computer simulation model to project the distribution of lifetime outcomes and costs of men-who-have-sex...