According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every 20 hospitalized patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. The spread of these infections, however, can be ...

Linda Ruterbories, director of surgical services and program development at OA – Centers for Orthopaedics, and CEO John Wipfler share four strategies for increasing the intensity and robustness of ...

With increased efforts to crack down on infection rates and improve infection control and prevention, infection control companies are increasingly seeing the need for innovative solutions. Here, Lynda ...

The publisher of Becker's ASC Review is launching a new, free electronic newsletter focusing on patient safety and infection control in ASCs. Becker's ASC Quality, Safety & Infection Control, which ...

SEMBACH, Germany – A select group of Army dentists, enlisted dental specialists and civilian dental staff assigned to the Rhineland-Pfalz Dental Activity recently took part in specialized training ...

Leapfrog Group gave more than 1,000 hospitals a "C" or worse score in the latest update to its Patient Safety Grades, with infection control a top pain point for a number of facilities that lag behind ...

Oregon hospitals have been making progress in reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs), but they still fall short in ...

Consistent with previous reports that physician offices can be just as dangerous to patients as hospitals, a new report from the American Medical Association contends that more research is needed to ...

It’s critical to consider how factors like emergency management, patient flow, security, life safety and infection prevention and control all are affected by construction, and endeavor to minimize the ...

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 ...

Hospitals across Oregon are falling below national standards in preventing infections, according to the Oregon Health ...