2016 has been yet another busy year for infection control and hospital quality professionals, as new hospital rankings were released, the threat of superbugs continued to grow and drug diversion from ...

The APT-Sepsis program significantly reduced infection-related outcomes in maternal care, demonstrating the impact of ...

New technologies tend to dominate headlines in modern medicine, but infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked ...

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 ...

Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...

A group of healthcare societies has issued updated infection control guidance for nursing homes, marking the guideline’s first update in 17 years. The guidance was published Oct. 28 in Infection ...

People are no longer asked to cover their mouth for a cough or sneeze. That was the old recommendation. The revised cough/sneeze guideline is to aim into the elbow. Germs are less likely to spread ...

Hospitals that participated in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network showed they were able to decrease healthcare-associated infection rates by 50 percent, thereby decreasing healthcare costs, ...

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 hands, properly sterilizing equipment or ...

Healthcare‑associated infections are infections that surface 48 hours after a patient’s admission, or, within a month after ...

Drug‑resistant Candida auris is rising in Illinois care facilities; health teams call for screening and deep cleaning.

A deadly fungal infection is spreading at "an alarming rate" inside health facilities and long-term-care hospitals across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.