The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new roadmap that acknowledges the increased medical needs of residents, the rise ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

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 ...

The words "do no harm" are echoed at many graduations of higher learning. The words are supposed to be at the core of the actions, decision-making, and ethics for each of us in dentistry. There is a ...

In the fast-paced environment of dental offices, infection control protocols are essential to ensuring patient safety and maintaining a high standard of care. However, the mantra "If you don't write ...

Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're likely following standards influenced by the Healthcare Infection Control ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a free training resource on best infection control practices for physicians, other clinicians, patient advocates and medical students.

Surgical procedures, by their very nature, interfere with the normal protective skin barrier and expose the patient to microorganisms from both endogenous and exogenous sources. Infections resulting ...

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 ...