PHOENIX — Infection rates decreased by up to 57% at a Virginia health system when it increased the size of its infection prevention staff, according to data presented at a conference.

HSS’s multidisciplinary Infection Control Committee, comprising more than 50 members from a variety of disciplines across the Hospital (including surgeons), meets monthly to review a broad range of ...

Many home health agencies’ infection prevention and control procedures lapsed following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open.. Between 2019 and 2023, the ...

In a May 28 message to health system CEOs, two national healthcare safety organizations compared cutting infection control jobs to “dismantling the fire department during wildfire season ...

Most types of E. coli are harmless, causing only mild symptoms. However, certain types can cause an intestinal infection, ...

Pinworms are the cause of a highly contagious intestinal infection in humans. Learn about its symptoms, the tape test, and effective methods of treatment.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has developed this document to provide infection prevention and control guidance to healthcare workers (HCWs) in the management of patients Footnote c with ...

Several committee members of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee have received termination notices, MedPage Today reported April 29. 1.

16.10.2017: Perspectives - New knowledge regarding the infectiousness and less frequent clinical manifestations of the varicella zoster virus should have consequences for infection prevention and ...

A survey of Medicare-certified home healthcare (HHC) agencies reveals minor improvements and problematic declines in infection prevention and control (IPC) staff training, less frequent IPC policy ...

The preservative thimerosal has been removed from all but a few vaccines, and studies have confirmed no link to ...