A CDC advisory committee convened last week to revisit the agency’s draft infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities, voting in favor of recommendations that remain largely unchanged ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) says it continues to detect a rising number ...

In 2024, the rate of six healthcare-associated infections commonly reported in acute care hospitals declined from the year ...

Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're likely following standards influenced by the Healthcare Infection Control ...

The CDC has released a basic infection control and prevention plan for outpatient oncology settings. This document has been developed for outpatient oncology facilities to serve as a model for a basic ...

Michael Bell, MD, associate director for infection control at CDC‘s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, discussed the dangers of improperly using single dose vials and ways healthcare providers ...

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, ...

The CDC and the American Nurses Association jointly launched a nursing education network for infection control and prevention. The Nursing Infection Control Education Network consists of 20 specialty ...

Funding cuts and restructuring at the CDC reportedly have disrupted certain efforts related to infection prevention, control and disease monitoring. One such effort is Together TakeMeHome at Emory ...

Children receive a drip at a children hospital in Beijing on November 23, 2023. The World Health Organization has asked on November 23, 2023, China for more data on a respiratory illness spreading in ...

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.