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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison formed a “Strike Team” to create oversight and determine the possible cause of surgical site infections that occurred ...

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 ...

The use of probiotics, fecal microbiota transplants, and live biotherapeutics have been effective in phase 3 studies that focus on Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Strategies designed to ...

As public social distancing policies evolve to control the COVID-19 pandemic, the direct public health role of hospital infection control should also be considered. There is now emerging evidence ...

In 2020, there has been an immense focus on infection control of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. However, over the past decade, there has been a growing ...

Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute ...

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 ...

The rise in the number of COVID-19 cases all over the world has not abated, with some countries reporting far greater numbers than others. However, despite its close geographical proximity to China, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Two primary care physicians in Singapore outlined containment and infection control strategies that a network of ...