A report by a senior infection prevention analyst at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority provides five basic infection control best practices for ASCs. The report, “Strategies to Fully Implement ...

Protecting residents staff ratings requires four actionable infection control steps to improve safety, compliance and operational performance in ...

Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, is the latest virus outbreak promoting a World Health Organization emergency meeting. Large numbers of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo and ...

The Department of Health and Human Services released a report in January of this year showing that more than 1,000 long-term care facilities in the United States had COVID-19 infection rates of 75% or ...

Infection control in intensive care units (ICUs) remains a critical component of modern healthcare, particularly given the high-risk environments where the most vulnerable patients are treated. The ...

New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

A nursing home that instituted a unique infection control strategy reduced its methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission rate by 82% in less than three years. The secret: daily use of ...

With antimicrobial resistance causing over 5 million deaths annually, rapid outbreak detection is critical. A German lab ...

"By definition, all antimicrobial-coated devices are combination products," explains Marc Mittelman, senior managing scientist, occupational and environmental health, Exponent (Menlo Park, CA). "Thus, ...