A bundle strategy including patient hand hygiene to decrease clostridium difficile infections.

Prevention strategies for Clostridium difficile infection traditionally have addressed barrier precautions, environmental disinfection, and health care worker hand hygiene. When applied as a bundle, this approach has been used widely as an evidence-based strategy to prevent hospital-acquired C. difficile infection.

Risk factors for acquisition of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii among cancer patients.

Background: Data regarding multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii infections among cancer patients are limited.

Methods: We conducted a case-control study to investigate the risk factors for acquisition of MDR A baumannii and the outcomes among cancer patients. Cases were inpatients with malignancy who had MDR A baumannii from any cultures between 2008 and 2011.