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Lessons From Efforts to Halt HAIs

Johns Hopkins researcher argues that arrogance, lack of transparency stand in way of saving lives. ...More
July 13, 2010
Posted in News
Achieving Zero Infections is Our Greatest Challenge

All around the world prevention and reduction of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is undergoing a resurgence. Levels of media, public, business and political engagement in HAI prevention and reduction in the developed world are unprecedented. Regardless, achieving ...More
May 18, 2010
Posted in Articles
APIC Responds to Consumer Reports Article on Infection Rates

Kathy Warye, CEO of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), issued the following statement:“The March 2010 issue of Consumer Reports (“Deadly infections: Hospitals can lower the risk, but many fail to act”) addresses ...More
February 3, 2010
Posted in News
Getting to Zero: Implications for Infection Prevention

Just how many infections are preventable? That’s the question with which every hospital grapples these days. While facilities are preventing more infections than ever before, the news still reports illnesses and deaths attributable to breaches in infection prevention ...More
October 15, 2009
Posted in Articles
Preventing Medical Errors: Avoid Blame Game, but Punish Habitual Offenders

Patient safety experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere are taking their prescription for avoiding medical errors in hospital care one step beyond already successful “no fault, no blame” approaches, calling now for penalties for doctors and nurses who fail to ...More
October 1, 2009
Posted in News, Hand Hygiene
South Carolina Hospitals to Eliminate Infections, Reduce Cost of Care

In an effort to reduce avoidable deaths, patient harm and healthcare costs, all 65 acute-care hospitals in South Carolina have joined a collaborative aimed at eliminating preventable healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) statewide while safely reducing associated costs. ...More
February 4, 2009
Posted in News
HHS Issues Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) unveiled a plan that establishes a set of five-year national prevention targets to reduce and possibly eliminate healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Healthcare-associated infections are infections that patients ...More
January 6, 2009
Posted in News
Infection Prevention Imperatives for the New Year

The axiom, “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” easily could be applied to the practice of infection prevention and control, which, while experiencing a spike in the number of more sophisticated, evolving tasks infection preventionists now must ...More
December 31, 2008
Posted in Articles
Software Cuts Infections by Almost Half

A new software program developed by Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers to fight hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is catching on faster than the flu. Professor Yehuda Carmeli from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at TAU has developed a security system for preventing ...More
November 5, 2008
Posted in News, Environmental Hygiene, Hand Hygiene
Automated Handwashing System Boosts Hand Hygiene Compliance

Q:Why is proper hand hygiene critical? A:Practicing proper hand hygiene is essential to protecting public health. Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) represent nearly 2 million infections and cause 100,000 deaths each year in the United States. One-third of these ...More
May 19, 2008
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization, Hand Hygiene

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