Recent updates to federal guidance make this an ideal time for long term care facilities to reassess and strengthen their EBP ...

Major CDC updates on COVID-19 vaccines spark concerns over child and maternal health, insurance, and access changes.

Updated CDC guidelines on PEP after nonoccupational HIV exposure address newer ART agents and clinical considerations for patients with a history of long-acting ART.

Understanding such issues could prove to be useful in the future for the control and perhaps prevention of tissue-damaging virus infection. Tissue damage caused by the immune system Almost all ...

The CDC ended its healthcare infection control practices advisory committee on May 8, and healthcare associations and groups are decrying the decision. Each year, hospitals incur $28.4 billion to $45 ...

The content of this guidance has been informed by technical advice provided by members of the Steering Committee on Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines and its Working Group on Routine ...

Several evidence-based guidelines have evaluated CAUTI preventive strategies as well as emerging evidence regarding intervention bundles. Implementation strategies are important because reducing UC ...

Objective Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) is a well-studied but hotly contested medical intervention of enhanced infection control. Here, we aim to characterise the changes to ...

Infection control strategy T6 remained dominant with the highest ... Our evidence synthesis underscores the need to review current guidelines based on the available evidence, and to conduct further ...

The content of this guidance document has been informed by technical advice provided by members of the Public Health Agency of Canada's Steering Committee on Infection Prevention and Control ...

SARS was eventually constrained by quarantine and strict adherence to infection control guidelines in hospitals, but not before it quickly traveled from Guangzhong to Hong Kong and on to Toronto.

but developed due to poor infection control. Leapfrog calculates its hospital safety grades based on a combination of a voluntary survey and mandatory reporting from third-party sources ...