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Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technology

Infection Control Today invited manufacturers of automated hand hygiene monitoring systems to provide information that will assist infection ...read more

Decolonization and MRSA Reduction

A new study shows that using germ-killing soap and ointment on all ICU patients can reduce bloodstream infections by up to 44 percent and ...read more

Importance of Environmental Cleaning

This Report provides a glimpse inside the experiences of infection preventionists relating to the evaluation and monitoring of environmental cleaning ...read more

Healthcare Associated Infections

This special Pulse issue reviews the burden of healthcare-associated infections, explores the impetus of mandatory reporting of infection data, and ...read more

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Barbara Soule Discusses Infection Prevention Through the Decades in CDC Blog

Today on CDC's Safe Healthcare Blog, Barbara Soule of Joint Commission Resources takes a look back at infection prevention highlights from the 1980s. Soule and colleagues will present this and more at the "Infection Prevention Through the Decades" panel at the annual ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Policies and Practice
Protecting Patients from Medical Errors Requires Commitment to a Strong Safety Culture

For too long, progress in preventing medication errors and other mistakes that compromise patient safety in healthcare facilities has been unacceptably slow and patients in the majority of U.S. hospitals may not be much safer today than they were 10 years ago, according to ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Gut Bacteria Play Key Role in Vaccination

The bacteria that live in the human gut may play an important role in immune response to vaccines and infection by wild-type enteric organisms, according to two recent studies resulting from a collaborative effort between the University of Maryland School of Medicine ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Researchers Reveal Malaria's Deadly Grip

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Oxford, NIMR Tanzania and Retrogenix LTD, have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red blood cells stick to the sides of blood vessels in ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Patient-Care Program Associated With Reduction of Common Post-Operative Complications

A study by Michael R. Cassidy, MD, and colleagues at the Boston University Medical Center, suggests that I COUGH, a standardized postoperative care program emphasizing patient education, early mobilization, and pulmonary interventions, is associated with reduced risk of ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Experiential Learning, Observation Boost HH Compliance Among Nursing Students

The National University Hospital in Singapore routinely undertakes standardized hand hygiene auditing with results produced by ward and by staff type. In 2010 concern was raised over consistently low compliance by nursing students averaging 45 percent (95%CI 42%-48%) ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
Researchers Investigate Rate of Patients Missed by MRSA Screening Programs

Targeted screening of patients at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage is an important component of MRSA control programs, which rely on prediction tools to identify those high-risk patients. Most previous risk studies reported a ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Researchers Describe Incidence, Microbiology and Patient Characteristics of SSTIs

Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are commonly occurring infections with wide-ranging clinical manifestations from mild to life-threatening. There are few population-based studies of SSTIs in the period after the rapid increase in community-acquired ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
JCR Launches Reducing Readmissions Consulting Service

Joint Commission Resources (JCR) has spent the past three years working with more than 250 hospitals testing and developing discharge planning, patient education, and post discharge follow-up practices that keep patients satisfied and out of the hospital. Now JCR is ...More
3 weeks ago
Posted in News
Slide Show: National Time Out Day 2013

National Time Out Day supports surgical nurses’ ability to speak up for safe practices in the operating room. Initiated as an annual awareness campaign by the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) in 2004, it has been consistently supported by the Joint ...More
3 weeks ago
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