Infection prevention enterprise risk demands direct board engagement and informed oversight to reduce financial, operational, and reputational harm.

Hospitals have spent decades strengthening infection prevention programs, yet hospital-acquired infections remain one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges, affecting hundreds of thousands of ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Melissa Schaefer, MD, medical officer in ...

Calculator provides individualized recommendations based on risk and complexity factors. (HealthDay News) — A novel calculator allows facilities to staff their infection prevention and control program ...

Delivering on their commitment to provide healthcare workers with better learning methodologies, Emory University’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab (HHFL), Relias, and Inception XR are partnering to ...

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 ...

Surgeon volume may not impact infection risk in patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty, according to results ...

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...

In related news, OSAP is also hosting a live webinar this week on infection prevention and control in school sealant programs. The free webinar, which will be held on February 18 and 19 at 1 p.m. ET, ...

In absence of a vaccine, compliance with infection prevention & control (IPC) measures remains the most effective intervention to control the COVID-19 outbreak. Our Weekly Epidemiology Report ...