New guidance on infection prevention and control for nursing homes offers recommendations for a variety of updated protocols and standards.

The majority of infection control practitioners do not trust their hospital’s laundering system, with 72 percent of ICPs reporting they would not wipe their drinking glass with a freshly laundered ...

After graduating from the Dornsife School of Public Health in 2018, Kevin Smith, Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology with a minor in Infectious Disease and Population Health, began working ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical need for educational programs that train and support future infection preventionists. Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health was prepared for this ...

Whether they’re there for a few days after a hospital stay, or living there long term, people in nursing homes are especially vulnerable to infections. From bacteria that have evolved to resist most ...

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology provides original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for anyone involved with an infection control or epidemiology program in a hospital or healthcare ...

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology provides original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for anyone involved with an infection control or epidemiology program in a hospital or healthcare ...

Hospital human resources professionals across the nation are expected to play a role in determining effective staffing levels to identify and reduce healthcare-associated infections. Good luck! No one ...

Hospitals need to get on the same page when it comes to checking for bloodstream infections among patients seeing as current methods of surveillance vary from facility to facility, according to a ...