Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection preventionists spent most of their time doing off-site consultations. Researchers developed a formula ...
Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice during nursing home flu and COVID outbreaks, according to a new study.
Infection preventionists are increasingly important — and increasingly challenged. Here’s a look at how and why.
The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight months. AdventHealth Celebration hospital has made gains by ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PHOENIX — Infection rates decreased by up to 57% at a Virginia health system when it increased the size of its ...
About 1 in 4 for-profit nursing homes across the country are likely not complying with federal regulations surrounding infection control staff, increasing health and safety risks for residents and ...
It is critical that your ASC not only train your staff members about your infection control program, but you must also test them to ensure they understand your policies and procedures, infection ...
Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or ...
The Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality provides a free, downloadable poster focusing on preventing infection through environmental disinfection. The poster addresses why disinfection is important ...