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2024 IDstewardship Year End Review

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It is likely our newsletter will remain a key communication for reaching the IDstewardship community.Not knowing what 2025 will hold, it is likely unpredictable events in our future will further guide what activities we engage in this year. Steven Smoke, Pharm.D., It is likely there will be greater activity on Bluesky and less activity on X.

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Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients

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After his death in 2016, his mother, Paula, launched a campaign to mandate training on intellectual disability and autism for health care workers. Now, all health care workers in the NHS must complete both an online module and a live interactive session covering communication and accommodations needed for this population.

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STAT+: DaVita faces another probe over ties to kidney care charity

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attorney general is specifically looking at “communications with AKF, documents relating to donations to the AKF, and communications with patients, providers, and insurers regarding the AKF.” ” The probe covers everything from January 2016 to the present day.

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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

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Along this line of thought, I have also learned to be gentle with how I communicate my lack of confidence in data that is shared with me. It is critical to recognizethat the data source and system it is filtered through will determinethe quality of the data. It is first important to be grateful to receive information from your colleague.

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Comparison Of Rebyota Versus Vowst: A Study Table To Help You Compare Fecal Microbiota Therapies

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Mandalia A, Ward A, Tauxe W, Kraft CS, Dhere T. Fecal transplant is as effective and safe in immunocompromised as non-immunocompromised patients for Clostridium difficile. Int J Colorectal Dis. Oneto C, Khanna S. Prescription Microbiome Therapeutic for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection: Fecal Microbiota Live-jslm. Am J Gastroenterol.

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EMA issues guidance amidst European medicine shortage

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The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published recommendations to increase communication and planning efforts in a bid stop the current medicine shortages becoming even worse. The EMA set up a task force in 2016 in light of issues concerning medicine availability and supply chain.

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Campaigners challenge NHS England’s latest plan to share patient data

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People can opt out of the scheme by filling in a form and taking it to their GP before 23 June, but campaigners say this has not been communicated effectively. The government’s last attempt to shake up patient data-sharing – 2013’s Care.data scheme – suffered from a number of false starts and was eventually shut down in 2016.