Feasibility and Challenges with Measuring Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Purpose: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) screening tool captures some experiences of childhood adversity, ranging from abuse to parental separation. Research has shown a correlation between ACEs and both adult and childhood disease. This study evaluated the feasibility of conducting ACE screening in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and investigated associations with markers for severity of illness and utilization of resources.

Make room for more sterile environments.

Infection control measures for 2005 clarify existing guidelines.

Evolving infection control standards challenge compliance.

Advances target JCAHO patient safety goal compliance, hand hygiene and antisepsis, intravenous site preparation, and West Nile Virus prevention.

Infection control staff update. SARS and safety.

The recent SARS outbreak emphasizes the need for employee safety.

Infection control risks "engineered out". Engineering controls foster better hand hygiene, aseptic techniques, and management of invasive devices.

Health care providers remain in an ideal position to discover and implement new methods of infection prevention and control.

Practice analysis for infection control and epidemiology in the new millennium.

Background: The Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology appointed an advisory committee to conduct a practice analysis (PA) of infection control professionals (ICPs) to identify current practices of ICPs. Results of the PA would assist in the development of a revised certification examination.

Methods: Five thousand seven hundred fifty-three questionnaires were distributed to ICPs in the United States and in Canada, as well as to a subsample of ICPs in other countries.

IC's boomerang: everything old is new again.

From whooping cough to bioterrorism, history repeats itself.