A study conducted by researchers from the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium suggests multidimensional infection control programs are vital to reducing healthcare-associated ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a tuberculosis infection-control program should consist of administrative controls, environmental controls and a respiratory-protection ...

Infection control is easy to view as an administrative burden, but going forward, the stricter standards for ASCs will be instrumental to providing quality patient care. According to Robert Chase, MD, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The scholarship aims to improve infection prevention at critical access hospitals. It will be part of a larger ...

Surgeon volume may not impact infection risk in patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty, according to results presented here.“Surgeon volume at our institution was not predictive of ...

Training and educating staff, and verifying the training and the effectiveness of the cleaning are keys to a good EVS program. Assess your environmental cleaning protocols, ensure staff are trained ...

Teamwork, along with communication and awareness, can build an effective infection prevention program. Infection prevention and control is fundamental to providing safe and high-quality patient care.

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 ...

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 ...

Long-term care facilities face a dual challenge: combating infections among vulnerable populations while curbing the overuse of antibiotics that drives resistance. Such facilities serve as crucial ...

A new anesthesiologist-led approach to reducing surgical site infections and length of hospital stays in colorectal patients resulted in a 50 percent decrease in infection instances and a 46 percent ...

Infectious Disease is the study of human and animal diseases caused by microorganisms. Students studying infectious disease at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health take courses in areas ...