Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

At the 9th annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, Cassandra Speier, senior vice president of operations for NovaMed, shared her expertise on best practices and ...

The field of dental practice has witnessed substantial advances in infection control measures over recent decades. Rigorous protocols are essential to prevent cross-contamination and the transmission ...

The importance of maintaining adequate safeguards for infection control was the topic of a session at ADA 2013 in New Orleans. Recent infection-control breaches have resulted in the deaths of some ...

The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new roadmap that acknowledges the increased medical needs of residents, the rise ...

Changing nurses' perception of infection risk could improve compliance with infection control measures. It's often said that knowledge is power. But, a new study finds that when it comes to nurses' ...

Here are six things ASCs should do internally and externally to further perfect their already existing infection control programs. 1. Educate patients. Although there is a myriad of best practices for ...

As more foreign-borne illnesses enter the U.S., such as the two patients with Ebola who were treated at Emory University Hospital and confirmed cases of mosquito-carried Dengue fever, new infection ...

Many infection prevention protocols focus on the operating room or in intensive care units. To focus on another area of medicine, a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology ...

Infection control researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed a virtual reality (VR) tool to train clinicians on core concepts in infection control, including cleaning and disinfecting portable ...

Among 13 hospital units including nearly 3,800 healthcare providers, adherence to expected practice was greater among the units asked to directly glove without hand hygiene compared with the units ...

ATLANTA, Jan. 27 (UPI) --The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking dialysis providers to improve their infection control practices because of an increased number of patients acquiring ...