Bittersweet as we say goodbye to 3 amazing fledging fellows - but happy we will be saying 👋 to them as our colleagues in Canadian ID. Ryan LeBlanc Daniel Friedman🏳️‍🌈 Luke McLaughlin you have grown into excellent doctors & we are proud of you. ❤️ Your friends & colleagues UofA Infectious Diseases

Congratulations to Dr. Lynora Saxinger MD FRCPC Infectious Diseases on co-authoring this new publication in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Use of facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

False negative rate of COVID-19 PCR testing: a discordant testing analysis Congratulations Jamil Kanji, MD et al virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Congratulations to Wendy Sligl for this richly deserved recognition! add.albertadoctors.org/issues/january…

@Ddrekonja Huge pet peeve! Particularly when it or the TST are ordered to work up a symptomatic patient. I think there should be a Constitutional amendment indicating that the ordering of a TST or quantiferon test to work up for active TB is a treasonous offense. RT if you agree.

New AMMI Canada recommendations on the duration of treatment for common infections. “Antibiotics are societal resources and the emerging impact of losing these precious resources is enormous”. Read it in full: bit.ly/3pFTEaw JAMMI Canada Journal Choosing Wisely Canada

On July 28, Alberta Health announced significant changes in the public health measures for #COVID19. I have written to the Minister regarding my concerns, and I want to share these points with you. 🧵or view on our website: albertadoctors.org/services/media…

I know it's a beautiful weekend but please take a few minutes to listen to Dr Schwartz (@GermHunterMD) expertly discuss why the government should be rethinking these proposed changes. #ableg #COVID19AB

Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Smith, Professor UofA Infectious Diseases, for being named National Co-Chair of the Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee (CHEC) and the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP)!!! 🙌 🥳 💪

🆕Update to our Review on Bacterial Infection in #COVID19: while co-infection remains infrequently reported, secondary infection is more common, especially in ICU. But- high heterogeneity across studies and less than 1/3 studies have low risk of bias: doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.…

Yay team! ROPA- a subtly subversive idea, relevant in #ASP ward based audit settings: rotate audit wards by geography and volume of use-to do the most you can in your time. ✅You have an educational presence. ✅You get good data ✅better workflow 🤷‍♀️ But - you miss a few.

Congratulations ⁦Justin Chen⁩ ⁦Holly⁩ ⁦⁦Carlos Cervera⁩ et al: RCT of antimicrobial stewardship intervention in patients hospitalised w/COVID-19 in ⁦The Lancet Infectious Diseases⁩ UofA Infectious Diseases⁩ ⁦⁦UAlberta Medicine⁩ ⁦UAlberta Med & Dent⁩ thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

New research: Efficacy and safety of antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 (COVASP): a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, non-inferiority trial thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Read our February issue! Featuring BA.5 infections in Denmark, RCT to reduce antibiotic use in hospital, and influenza in vaccinated people in Latin America thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Clostridioides difficile infection in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients: A nested cohort study. See new work from Wendy Sligl and others. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36682909/

#AMR in #COVID19 is substantial - Our systematic review found the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among patients with COVID-19 and bacterial infection was 61%. Higher rates in LMICs and ICU populations. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) via The Lancet Microbe

Check out this pub of LKSIoV Members Dr Karen Doucette and Dr Carlos Cervera, "Efficacy and safety of antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback in patients hospitalised with COVID-19..." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36716763/ Karen Doucette Carlos Cervera UofA Infectious Diseases Office of Research

DrCora @academialiya : A needs assessment results which broadens the scope of research on understanding how teams in a tertiary pediatric care centre make antimicrobial prescribing (AP) decisions. #pediatrics #stewardship bit.ly/3T6K8h0