Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, ...

Just 17.4 percent of ambulatory care nurses reported that they comply with all nine standard precautions for infection prevention, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.

On the heels of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services emphasizing the importance of using enhanced barrier precautions when caring for certain nursing home residents, infection control ...

While seemingly esoteric and of little impact to health workers and the public, a little known group is creating a firestorm in the public health community. The Healthcare Infection Control Advisory ...

It’s critical to consider how factors like emergency management, patient flow, security, life safety and infection prevention and control all are affected by construction, and endeavor to minimize the ...

Teamwork, along with communication and awareness, can build an effective infection prevention program. Infection prevention and control is fundamental to providing safe and high-quality patient care.

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control questions whether contact precaution protocols effectively decrease the risk of healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA. For their ...

The CDC challenged draft 2024 infection control guidelines sent to the agency for approval from the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), asking for clarification on key ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type of bacteria that causes an infection that may be resistant to many antibiotics. There are precautions you can take to avoid contracting ...