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Weekly JAMA Feature for December 1
GLOBAL LOOK AT FREQUENCY AND OUTCOMES OF INFECTION RATES IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Radio script (TRT APPROX. 1:00)
December 1, 2009
VO: INFECTION IS A COMMON AND SERIOUS PROBLEM FACING PATIENTS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS. A NEW GLOBAL STUDY GIVES DOCTORS A SNAPSHOT OF WHERE, WHAT KIND AND HOW FREQUENT ICU INFECTIONS ACTUALLY ARE.
“There is an additional perhaps 10 to 15 percent mortality risk associated with acquiring an infection in the ICU. Therefore strategies to try to prevent that to treat it effectively and early assume a substantial degree of importance when you look at this as a global health problem.”
VO: IN RESEARCH FEATURED THIS WEEK IN JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, DR. JOHN MARSHALL OF ST. MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL IN TORONTO, CANADA ALONG WITH FELLOW INTERNATIONAL CO-AUTHORS, EXAMINED OVER 14 THOUSAND PATIENTS FROM 1265 ICUs, IN 75 COUNTRIES, OVER ONE 24 HOUR PERIOD IN 2007 AND FOUND MORE THAN HALF HAD INFECTIONS.
“60 percent of the infections were pneumonia’s, about 20 percent were infections inside the abdomen and about 15 percent were infections of the urinary tract.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT. :03
Radio script (TRT APPROX. 1:00)
December 1, 2009
VO: INFECTION IS A COMMON AND SERIOUS PROBLEM FACING PATIENTS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS. A NEW GLOBAL STUDY GIVES DOCTORS A SNAPSHOT OF WHERE, WHAT KIND AND HOW FREQUENT ICU INFECTIONS ACTUALLY ARE.
“There is an additional perhaps 10 to 15 percent mortality risk associated with acquiring an infection in the ICU. Therefore strategies to try to prevent that to treat it effectively and early assume a substantial degree of importance when you look at this as a global health problem.”
VO: IN RESEARCH FEATURED THIS WEEK IN JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, DR. JOHN MARSHALL OF ST. MICHAEL’S HOSPITAL IN TORONTO, CANADA ALONG WITH FELLOW INTERNATIONAL CO-AUTHORS, EXAMINED OVER 14 THOUSAND PATIENTS FROM 1265 ICUs, IN 75 COUNTRIES, OVER ONE 24 HOUR PERIOD IN 2007 AND FOUND MORE THAN HALF HAD INFECTIONS.
“60 percent of the infections were pneumonia’s, about 20 percent were infections inside the abdomen and about 15 percent were infections of the urinary tract.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT. :03