The ICHE Podcast is back! In this episode, Editor-in-Chief David P. Calfee, MD, MS discusses the rise in HAIs since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Guests on this episode are Maggie Dudeck, MPH, David Kuhar, MD, David Henderson, MD, Tara Palmore, MD, Mohamad Fakih, MD, Julie Szymczak, PhD, and Lona Mody, MD. Be sure to read the full January issue available at https://www.cambridge.org/iche.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast Dr. Jennie Kwon and Carey-Ann Burnham discuss their article, “Assessment of antibiotic-resistant organism transmission among rooms of hospitalized patients, healthcare personnel, and the hospital environment utilizing surrogate markers and selective bacterial cultures,” from the May 2020 issue of ICHE (Volume 41, Issue 5). Listen and learn more about the research her team conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered. Note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2020 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast Dr. Colleen Kraft discusses her article, “Serosurvey on healthcare personnel caring for patients with Ebola virus disease and Lassa virus in the United States,” from the April 2020 issue of ICHE (Volume 41, Issue 4). Listen and learn more about the research her team conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered. Note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2020 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, Milner Staub and Chris Evans discuss their article, “Analysis of a high-prescribing state’s 2016 outpatient antibiotic prescriptions: Implications for outpatient antimicrobial stewardship interventions,” from the February 2020 issue of ICHE (Volume 41, Issue 2). Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered. Note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to https://learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2020 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Managing Editor, Lindsay MacMurray, interviews Bradley Langford (1:21), John Mills (8:46), and Kristen Marshall (18:58). They discuss three articles from the December 2019 issue of ICHE (Volume 40, Issue 12). Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Managing Editor, Lindsay MacMurray, interviews Bradley Langford and Larissa Matukas (1:27); Courtney M. Pagels, Thomas J. Dilworth, Lynne Fehrenbacher, and Charles F. Brummitt (12:29); and Stefan Kuster (24:15). They discuss three articles from the December 2019 issue of ICHE (Volume 40, Issue 12). Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Managing Editor, Lindsay MacMurray, interviews Kelly Cawcutt (1:25), Christina Thornton (15:09), and Kalvin Yu & Cliff McDonald (24:55). They discuss three articles from the November 2019 issue of ICHE (Volume 40, Issue 11). Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Managing Editor, Lindsay MacMurray, interviews Kali VanLangen, Lisa Dumkow, Katie Axford, and Andrew Jameson about their study, “Evaluation of a multifaceted approach to antimicrobial stewardship education methods for medical residents.” Listeners should note that this article is available for Journal CME. Go to https://learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2019 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members. Then, Paula Strassle discusses her article, “Incidence and risk factors of non–device-associated urinary tract infections in an acute-care hospital.” And lastly, Richard Martinello and James Arbogast discuss their article, “Nursing preference for alcohol-based hand rub volume.” Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Managing Editor, Lindsay MacMurray, interviews Jenine Leal about her article, “Attributable costs and length of stay of hospital-acquired Clostridioides difficile: A population-based matched cohort study in Alberta, Canada.” Then we hear from, Debby Ben-David, one of the authors of the article, “The association between implementation of second-tier prevention practices and CLABSI incidence: A national survey.” Listen and learn more about the research they conducted, why it's important to ICHE readers, and what future research questions they'd like to see answered.

In this episode of The ICHE Podcast, ICHE Managing Editor, Lindsay MacMurray, interviews Misha Devchand and Jason Tribiano, authors of the article, “Outcomes of an electronic medical record (EMR)–driven intensive care unit (ICU)-antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) ward round: Assessing the “Five Moments of Antimicrobial Prescribing”. Then we hear from, Xiaoyan Song, one of the authors of the article, “Impact of decolonization on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in a neonatal intensive care unit”. Listeners should note that Dr. Song’s article is available for Journal CME. Go to https://learningce.shea-online.org/ and browse the Course Catalog for Journal CME 2019 to quickly and easily earn your credits. All Journal CME is free for SHEA members.