Admission to the intensive care unit is not a risk factor for acquiring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a meta-study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

Universal skin decolonisation of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) may not improve infection control. New research led by the University of Aberdeen indicated that it might increase ...

Lower respiratory tract infections increase ICU stays by an average of nine days according to a study in Infection Control Today. Researchers retrospectively studied the hospital stays of 49 ICU ...

Public health investigators linked two cases of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections in hospitalized patients to their most likely source -- a sink in the intensive care unit (ICU) room where both ...

April 13, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Elderly patients treated with central catheter and/or mechanical ventilation devices in intensive care units (ICUs), admitted from the emergency department or ...

A large multi-state study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, HCA Healthcare, and the University of California, Irvine has found that a nasal ...

Hospitals are working hard to control bacterial infections that patients can acquire, and a new study shows that introducing private rooms in an intensive care unit can slash infection rates by more ...

Bacterial co-infection is a major risk factor for death, intensive care unit admission and mechanical ventilation, according to a multi-center, retrospective cohort study published in the journal ...