Five medical societies have published a set of recommendations for operationalizing strategies for infection prevention in acute care settings that account for conditions within the facility ...

Infection can be dangerous for people who are very sick, have long or frequent stays in health care facilities, or have invasive medical devices like breathing tubes, feeding tubes, and catheters.

On Friday evening, the CDC quietly made a significant change to its COVID-19 guidance in health care settings, allowing health facilities to determine the use of universal masking.

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent… ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel, recently restructured by Health and Human Services Secretary ...

Four committee members said the Centers for Disease Control and ... there is no longer any public access to the process for drafting CDC guidance on infection control for health care settings.

This study also finds that public health communication on pneumococcal vaccination of older adults in LTC settings is ineffective, as evident in the lack of awareness from long-term care providers ...

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Over 50% of EU care home residents get infections yearly, with respiratory and urinary infections most common, ECDC study finds.

A large European study finds that more than half of residents of long-term care facilities acquire healthcare-associated ...

Infection can be dangerous for people who are very sick, have long or frequent stays in health care facilities, or have invasive medical devices like breathing tubes, feeding tubes, and catheters.