Scientists have recently released guidance for prevention and management of COVID-19 among elderly in long term care facilities. The article outlines the objective of WHO interim guidance on Infection ...

Bayada Home Health Care had to go it alone when it developed infection control and prevention protocols for its clinicians. Unlike the numerous infection prevention resources available to hospitals ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a summary guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient settings. The recommendations included in the guide reflect existing ...

Healthcare-associated infections can be reduced by up to 55 percent by systematically implementing evidence-based infection prevention and control strategies, according to a review of 144 studies. The ...

These guidelines have been developed for practitioners who insert catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home health-care ...

COVID-19 required APIC to staff up, but there were good reasons to develop a pipeline for infection prevention even before the pandemic. The challenges facing infection preventionists (IP) were ...

Kenneth E. Thorpe ([email protected]) is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, ...

A multi-country clinical trial has shown that a structured, sustainable approach to infection prevention and treatment can ...

A new video aims to help state health officials stop communicable disease and other infections caused by health care provider errors. A new video aims to help state health officials stop communicable ...

Making a business case for hiring new infection preventionists starts with gathering data on the current state of infection rates and staffing concerns. Infection preventionists have an expertise that ...