Multicenter Evaluation of the BD Phoenix CPO Detect Test for Detection and Classification of Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms in Clinical Isolates.

Limited treatment options contribute to high morbidity/mortality rates with carbapenem-resistant, Gram-negative bacterial infections. New approaches for carbapenemase-producing organism (CPO) detection may help inform clinician decision-making on patient treatment and infection control. BD Phoenix CPO detect (CPO detect) detects and classifies carbapenemases in , , and during susceptibility testing.

Hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection rates in persons with cancer or hematopoietic stem cell transplant: a C3IC network report.

A multicenter survey of 11 cancer centers was performed to determine the rate of hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection (HO-CDI) and surveillance practices. Pooled rates of HO-CDI in patients with cancer were twice the rates reported for all US patients (15.8 vs 7.

Task switching and subjective duration.

Three experiments investigated the effects of switching from a nontiming task (addition of rapidly presented digits) to estimation of the duration of short tones or visual stimuli (Experiments 1 and 2), or the production of time intervals (Experiment 3). In general, compared with trials without a task-switch, trials involving a switch resulted in shorter duration estimates, but longer productions. The difficulty of the nontiming task, and the gap between the nontiming task and the timing task, also played a role, at least in some cases.