Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Dialysis staff, including physicians, are not consistently following universal infection control ...

Many doctor’s offices do not meet basic infection control standards, according to the CDC, and outbreaks resulting from breaches in standard practice are cause for concern as more patients turn to ...

The CDC has released a basic infection control and prevention plan for outpatient oncology settings. This document has been developed for outpatient oncology facilities to serve as a model for a basic ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

A CDC advisory committee convened last week to revisit the agency’s draft infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities, voting in favor of recommendations that remain largely unchanged ...

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance by ...

The National Nurses United (NNU) spoke out against recent US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention action to finalize infection control guidelines that affect long-term care communities. The NNU ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

When the new coronavirus started sweeping across Ohio in March, state officials immediately set protective restrictions to limit visitors to nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The goal was ...