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… ...

Urinary tract infection in older adults may be more common due to underlying medical condition and management or therapeutic intervention. Comments 3090D553-9492-4563-8681-AD288FA52ACE ...

As I head into my 25th year of working as a clinical infectious diseases pharmacist, one of the most important working relationships of my career is with the infection prevention department.

Hand hygiene remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in healthcare settings, vital for curtailing the transmission of multidrug‐resistant organisms and reducing the incidence of healthcare ...

The team reviewed its infection prevention and control (IPC) link programme and spent 12 months developing an IPC link champion education framework, to provide more structure and deliver value to ...

A groundbreaking data-sharing pilot to monitor infections in care homes in England is the “missing piece of the puzzle” to improving lives in adult social care, a nurse leading the project has said.

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.