The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team at Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital has been named a finalist in the ...

A deadly fungus spreading at an alarming rate in U.S. health facilities has exposed the broader problem of how patient safety is jeopardized by underfunded and understaffed infection-prevention ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection preventionists at AdventHealth Celebration doubled their infection control staff over 4 years. This ...

In response to recent findings showing clinical cases of C. auris grew 95 percent from 2020 to 2021, The Washington Post spoke to experts who said the research points to how poorly funded and ...

Modeling done based on data from a single hospital suggests a transmission-prevention regime meaningfully reduced hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Efforts to use contact ...

Hospitals have spent decades strengthening infection prevention programs, yet hospital-acquired infections remain one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges, affecting hundreds of thousands of ...

The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight months. AdventHealth Celebration hospital has made gains by ...

Rupak Datta, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is an assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and an assistant hospital epidemiologist in the Veterans Affairs Connecticut ...

New research finds bacteria resistant to antibiotics in hospital wastewater system. A unique new study led by researchers at University of Limerick in Ireland has found that bacteria that may lead to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AI can help hospitals improve infection prevention. It can also assist clinicians adhere to antimicrobial ...