Maria Sundaram, PhD and I co-authored this piece “Improving COVID-19 Epidemiology Through A Health Equity Lens” for IDSA. Ramping down of public health surveillance measures means inequities affecting testing, treatment and patient outcomes Check it out! idsociety.org/covid-19-real-…

BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship This was a great collaborative effort involving EIN, Noah, Payal K. Patel Monica Mahoney Whitney Buckel Dr. Mehrotra

If you are not an EIN participant and interested in responding to future surveys, you can sign up here: ein.idsociety.org/members/sign_u…

One of our BIDMC Infectious Diseases Fellowship Noah Boton collaborated w/the Emerging Infections Network team on a survey asking what the ID community is doing for C. diff treatment. If you participate in EIN, it went live today - please check your emails and help us out by completing the survey!

Antibiotic stewardship takes focus in the April episode of Conversations on Quality and Patient Safety from Joint Commission Journal.

This episode features Payal K. Patel of Intermountain Health, and Dr. Arjun Srinivasan of CDC.

Watch the full conversation: jointcommissionjournal.com/interviews

For patients deemed unlikely to have a bacterial infection by #stewie team, 45% of teams stopped antibiotics within 48 hours of the recommendation. 3.8x higher number of adverse drug events when team continued antibiotics despite recommendation to stop. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Still riding high from the wonderful #UQual retreat with #stewie leaders from University of Utah Department of Internal Medicine and Intermountain Health. Great group of collaborators and friends making things happen! (and skiing a bit too) Emily Sydnor Spivak 🇺🇦

Antimicrobial Stewardship teams in VA and non-federal hospitals in the United States: A National Survey of antimicrobial stewardship practices

✅ Just Accepted
🔓 Open Access
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Payal K. Patel

New in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology: Our SHEA Compendium Commentary on Future HAI #Metrics

- evolution of #CAUTI
- metrics beyond device infections:  catheter harm, device use, #contamination
-parallels with pneumonia, vent harm, HOBSI, hospital onset sepsis

📰: doi.org/10.1017/ice.20…

Always a pleasure to work with amazing co-authors such as Sonali Advani MD, MPH, FIDSA & Payal K. Patel & the rest of the coauthors on this new Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology manuscript -
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Excited and honored to be the kickoff speaker for this day-long media training workshop with many familiar faces including Monica Mahoney Carlos del Rio Payal K. Patel Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH and many more hosted by SHEA.

SIDP CDC Antimicrobial Resistance SHEA ACCP INFD PRN Let’s not forget about access to novel antibiotics on the global scale. Check out this joint paper by the CDC Antimicrobial Resistance and World Health Organization (WHO) team in The Lancet

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#USAAW23 #ABXRxEquity

Our fellows and antibiotic stewardship team had excellent time meeting Dr. Payal Patel Payal K. Patel. Thanks for your presentation on grand rounds and we appreciate your efforts towards global antimicrobial stewardship. U are inspirational !! #IDtwitter IDSA SHEA

“The future of medicine needs infectious diseases leaders,” says IDSA Community of Leaders alumni Payal K. Patel, MD, MPH.

Apply to IDSA's #CommunityofLeaders program by Dec. 1. Participants will have exclusive access to the IDSA Academy learning management system, which includes