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“Antimicrobial Guidelines: Filling the Gaps - Addressing the Outliers”, see our events page for more details and sign on to the ICAAC registration page to register.

Visit our continuing education page to view this new program developed by

VemcoMedEd and Center for Independent Healthcare Education as a CME/CPE-certified 0.2 CEU credited Online Activity: Bacterial Infections in Patients with Cancer: New Challenges,  New Opportunities, supported by an educational grant from Cubist Pharmaceuticals.

The continuing “Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates” series is being published monthly in Infection Control and Healthcare Epidemiology.  For those that participate in these endeavors, you can review recommendations for preventing central line–associated bloodstream infections and preventing transmission and infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus   in this months edition. 

Our content management system (Wild Apricot) will take our site (www.sidp.org) down for mandatory upgrades this Saturday 21 Jun 2014, starting about 2:00 AM.  The site should only be down for a few hours but if you are planning to be working on something, make sure to do what you need prior or plan to do it after.  Sorry for any inconvenience, just part of making the site better.

The Spring 2014 newsletter is now available. Click here to read the latest SIDP news!

WHO reports the accessible information on national ABR surveillance

and on ABR data for a set of common pathogenic bacteria, in order to present an analysis of the global situation as it appeared in 2013 in a summary document.

The 2014 annual meeting will take place in conjunction with ICAAC, on Friday, September 5^th at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington DC. The business meeting and CE programming is planned to begin at noon with a reception to follow at 6:30pm.  More information about registration to come soon.

The Board of Directors of the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) is

pleased to announce the availability of funding from Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to support TWO Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Residencies or Fellowships for the period of July 2014 through June 2015.

The intent of this funding is to foster the development of advanced training opportunities for pharmacists committed to the practice area and/or research of antimicrobial stewardship and infectious diseases.  See the attached RFP with hyperlinks.

Gubbins PO, Klepser ME, Dering-Anderson AM, Bauer K, Darin KM, Klepser S, Matthias KR, Scarsi K. Point of care testing for infectious diseases: Opportunities, barriers and considerations in community pharmacy. J Am Pharm Assoc 2014;54(2):163–171.

 

“CLIA-waived point of care (POC) tests for infectious diseases represent a unique opportunity for community pharmacists to expand their patient care services while also benefitting patients and developing a public health role of the profession. This work was produced by members of the Society’s Task Force on Rapid Diagnostic Tests. They reviewed the literature and researched state pharmacy laws and determined that pharmacists in many states could apply for CLIA waivers for POC testing  and offer testing for Group A streptococcal pharyngitis, HIV, and hepatitis C virus. In addition they highlight barriers to implementing such services in community pharmacies and point out that while barriers to implementing such services exist, they are not insurmountable.”

 

For a link to the abstract, click here.