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 ...

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 ...

While many hospitals were trimming budgets and enforcing hiring freezes, infection prevention manager Luz Caicedo successfully doubled her department’s workforce at AdventHealth Celebration (Fla.) ...

1. Using cloth towels to clean hospital rooms may be insufficient to remove microbial contaminants, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control. 2. A scoring system using five ...

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 ...

APIC provides a free, downloadable brochure, developed by Kimberly-Clark, which gives healthcare workers a brief history of respiratory infections as well as the droplet and airborne precautions ...

Members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) voted Friday to defend what some have called weak standards of infection control for healthcare settings, agreeing ...

Infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety — ...

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