Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...

Infection control numbers at a Hertfordshire NHS Trust are “not on trajectory’ according to a report, with 42 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado hospitals were cited more than 80 times in the past five years for infection control lapses when employees didn’t take steps such as washing their ...

In response to recent findings showing clinical cases of C. auris grew 95 percent from 2020 to 2021, The Washington Post spoke to experts who said the research points to how poorly funded and ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient clinics throughout the US shifted toward virtual care to limit viral transmission in the office. However, as health care facilities have reopened, evidence ...

While there are other infection control guidelines, these are the first tailored specifically to physicians who treat patients in pain, including with procedures such as cortisone shots in the knees, ...

Infection preventionists are increasingly important — and increasingly challenged. Here’s a look at how and why.

In the final report of a three-part series published last year about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing homes, the Office of the Inspector General found “monumental and ongoing staffing ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...

Inadequate infection prevention and control staffing levels are associated with higher rates of healthcare-associated infections, according to a new study published today in the American Journal of ...