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The recently published compendium guidelines on preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections include approaches that should not be considered a routine part of CAUTI prevention.
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South Carolina hospitals are moving to the leading edge of the patient safety movement, collaborating with The Joint Commission on multiple projects and adopting a highly touted surgical safety checklist in every operating room in the state.
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The first U.S. case of MERS-CoV infection diagnosed in the U.S. has been identified in an individual traveling from Saudi Arabia.
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The leading infection control and infectious disease organizations are issuing updated recommendations in new compendium guidelines that will be published in sections over the next few months.
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Infection preventionists remain on heightened alert nationwide afterthe first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in the United States was recently hospitalized at Community Hospital in Munster, IN.
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On March 21, 2014, two new antibiotics with activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) each received unanimous recommendations from FDA Advisory Committees for approval for treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) caused by Gram-positive organisms.
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A growing number of health care workers are coming into their profession with childhood vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV).
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This study comes from the legacy Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) of almost 7000 men who have sex with men, both HIV-infected and non-HIV, for 3 decades.
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The idea that the Ebola virus may mutate and become transmissible through the air continues to be pushed to the margins of the public health discussion, now all but relegated to the nightmares of a panicked public.
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The World Health Organization recently reported two Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus infections in Qatar, with both men reporting exposure to camels.