Newsletters

We issue monthly newsletters to keep hospital infection control professionals, nurses, and physicians up-to-date about technical, timely, and important news regarding infection control topics.

Previous DICON Newsletters are listed below as examples of this valuable resource

Date Title
April 2011 Side Effects of Contact Precautions: Yelllow means Danger, Delays, and Depression of Patients
March 2011 Infection Control Implications of the New Guidelines on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Enterobacteriaceae
February 2011 One Needle, One Syringe, One Time, One Patient: Preventing Bloodborne Infections with the DICON Safe Injection Practices Course
January 2011 Regulations, Guidelines, and Recommendtions: Staying Current with the Help of DICON
December 2010 E. coli ST131: Multi-Drug Resistance in Community-Acquired Infections
November 2010 Understanding Measures of Surveillance Analysis: Incidence Rate and Standardized Infection Ratio
October 2010 Universal Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Workers: The Time is Now
September 2010 New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamase-1 (NDM-1): Emergence of a Novel Resistance Mechanism in Enterobacteriaceae
August 2010 Table Comparing DICON and NHSN Surveillance Systems
August 2010 Healthcare-Associated Infection Surveillance Tools Do Not Prevent Infections: A Comparison of Surveillance Systems
July 2010 The Long Term Effect of Participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network
June 2010 Pseudo-Infections and Pseudo-Outbreaks: Real Challenges for Infection Control