Discover how wise leadership in infection control transforms challenges into opportunities, fosters teamwork, and safeguards patient safety through emotional intelligence, strategic vision, and ...

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 ...

Emory University Hospital Midtown's (EUHM) medical intensive care unit (71 ICU) has been selected to participate in a nationwide infection control study, looking at ways to reduce hospital-associated ...

Central lines are lifelines for critically ill patients, delivering medications, nutrition, and fluids directly into major ...

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 ...

A multifaceted infection-prevention push at a tertiary rehab ICU in the Upper Midwest reversed a rise in C difficile, lifting hand-hygiene adherence from 69% to 91% and cutting the C. diff ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...