Calculator provides individualized recommendations based on risk and complexity factors. (HealthDay News) — A novel calculator allows facilities to staff their infection prevention and control program ...

A new study found that a multifaceted infection prevention and control intervention could at least temporarily thwart outbreaks of infections from the Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium, a leading cause ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Melissa Schaefer, MD, medical officer in ...

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 ...

Emergency medical services (EMS) workers appear to be at higher risk of infection when compared to firefighters and other frontline emergency personnel. A new report from the Agency for Healthcare ...

In a recent letter to leaders in Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) highlighted the “astonishing lack of attention to infection prevention and ...

Originally created for hospitals, the World Health Organization’s Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPCAF) has been adapted to assess infection prevention and control (IPC) ...

Delivering on their commitment to provide healthcare workers with better learning methodologies, Emory University’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab (HHFL), Relias, and Inception XR are partnering to ...

What is the role of the nose in infection acquisition and transmission? Why do harmless commensal bacteria on the skin become pathogenic and lead to infection? If hands are decolonized to reduce risk ...

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 ...

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