Previously, environmentally transmitted diseases have not always been clearly recognized as the serious threat to patient safety that we appreciate today. Emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, health care-associated infections are the most ...

Infection is a significant problem for many long-term care facilities. Exposure to pathogens such as C. diff., MRSA, influenza and others can be life-threatening for seniors whose immune systems may ...

The ASC Quality Collaboration offers a free toolkit designed to help healthcare organizations boost environmental infection prevention. 1. A checklist of what CMS surveyors are looking for in the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released an interim guidance for environmental infection control in hospitals related to the Ebola virus. In early October, the CDC released ...

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance by ...

With reports of news stories related to “superbug” infections emerging in hospitals across the country, health care facilities are redoubling their efforts to ensure that proper sanitization ...

In a recent letter to leaders in Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) highlighted the “astonishing lack of attention to infection prevention and ...

Three patients undergoing laser eye surgery at a New York City ophthalmology clinic developed Purpureocillium lilacinum ...