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Patient Colonization: Implications and Possible Solutions for Contamination of the Healthcare Environment

Dec 03, 2018

Hospital Privacy Curtains and Bed Sheets: Soft Surface Contamination and Transmission

Dec 03, 2018

Shoe Sole and Floor Contamination: A New Consideration in the Environmental Hygiene Challenge for Hospitals

Oct 31, 2018

Electronic Surveillance: Slow Adoption Could Hamper Enhanced HAI Prevention Efforts

Dec 03, 2018

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In Times of Low Unemployment, Nursing Home Quality Suffers

Dec 07, 2018

The low unemployment rate in the U.S. -- which fell to a 49 year-low in September and October -- is good news to many people, but perhaps...

Experts Develop Guide for Getting More LTC Residents Immunized

Oct 04, 2018

A summit convened by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) National Adult Vaccination Program (NAVP) has...

Comparing Appropriateness of Antibiotics for Nursing Home Residents by Setting of Prescription Initiation

Jun 20, 2018

The pervasive, often inappropriate, use of antibiotics in healthcare settings has been identified as a major...

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Researchers Study MRSA Transmission Dynamics in Non-Hospital Residential Facilities

Apr 20, 2018

Non-hospital residential facilities are important reservoirs for MRSA transmission. However, conclusions and public health implications drawn from the many mathematical models depicting nosocomial MRSA transmission may not be applicable to these...

Predicting Avoidable Transfers From Nursing Homes is Complex

Feb 26, 2018

Treating acutely ill nursing home residents in place and avoiding hospitalizations when possible is better for their health and for the healthcare system. Common diagnoses, such as heart failure or urinary tract infection, are often used to...

Nursing Homes Should Require Flu Shots for All Staff and Patients, Poll Indicates

Feb 06, 2018

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Cognitive Impairment, Presence of a Wound Associated With Elevated Probability of USA100 Carriage

Dec 08, 2017

Nursing home residents are frequently colonized with various strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) but the intra-facility dynamics of strain-specific MRSA remains poorly understood. Batina, et al. (2017) sought to...

Nursing Homes Can Prevent Infections Through Performance Improvement Collaboratives

Dec 05, 2017

Each year, 150,000 U.S. nursing home residents will receive a urinary catheter—half of whom will develop a catheter...

More Physicians are Becoming 'Nursing Home Specialists'

Nov 28, 2017

The number of doctors and advance practitioners in the United States who focus on nursing home care rose by more than one-third...

Nursing Home Workers Often Fail to Change Gloves

Sep 07, 2017

The failure to change gloves is common among certified nursing assistants, and may be a significant cause of the spread of...

High-Dose Flu Vaccine Lowers Rate of Hospitalization From Respiratory Illnesses in LTC Residents

Jul 21, 2017

In the largest nursing home study to date on the effect of a high dose (HD) flu vaccine, researchers found that vaccines with four times the antigen of standard flu (SD) vaccines significantly reduced the risk of respiratory and all-cause...

Significant Gaps in Infection Prevention Impact LTC Residents

Jun 14, 2017

While nearly 400,000 residents of long-term care facilities die as a result of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), these facilities continue to lack the resources, including qualified personnel, necessary to implement adequate infection...

IC in Care Series: Long-Term Care

Jun 02, 2017

With the U.S. healthcare reform mandate for increasing transparency and improved quality, the need for infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is becoming more critical than ever before for the more than 3 million...

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