According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every 20 hospitalized patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. The spread of these infections, however, can be ...

Linda Ruterbories, director of surgical services and program development at OA – Centers for Orthopaedics, and CEO John Wipfler share four strategies for increasing the intensity and robustness of ...

With increased efforts to crack down on infection rates and improve infection control and prevention, infection control companies are increasingly seeing the need for innovative solutions. Here, Lynda ...

Prior to opening a healthcare facility that has undergone extensive water and wind damage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state inspections need to be conducted to determine if the ...

It’s critical to consider how factors like emergency management, patient flow, security, life safety and infection prevention and control all are affected by construction, and endeavor to minimize the ...

Leapfrog Group gave more than 1,000 hospitals a "C" or worse score in the latest update to its Patient Safety Grades, with infection control a top pain point for a number of facilities that lag behind ...

SEMBACH, Germany – A select group of Army dentists, enlisted dental specialists and civilian dental staff assigned to the Rhineland-Pfalz Dental Activity recently took part in specialized training ...

Consistent with previous reports that physician offices can be just as dangerous to patients as hospitals, a new report from the American Medical Association contends that more research is needed to ...

The trend of green practices is growing, but when it comes to infection control products, making patient safety a priority is important. That's according to Mary Govoni, RDH, MBA, who was speaking at ...

Long-term care providers are eyeing a study that connects high levels of psychological safety among staff members with the strength of a hospital’s infection prevention and control program. The ...

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 ...

It’s critical to consider how factors like emergency management, patient flow, security, life safety and infection prevention and control all are affected by construction, and endeavor to minimize the ...