People are no longer asked to cover their mouth for a cough or sneeze. That was the old recommendation. The revised cough/sneeze guideline is to aim into the elbow. Germs are less likely to spread ...

Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...

Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

Oregon hospitals have been making progress in reducing health care-associated infections (HAIs), but they still fall short in ...

A lack of infection control policies for home healthcare programs puts patients and caregivers at risk, according to a Case Western Reserve University news release. Irena Kenneley, assistant professor ...

Hospitals should use insights to revise “outdated” infection prevention and control policies, a review published in Annals of Internal Medicine Nov. 9 suggested. Current infection control measures are ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a tuberculosis infection-control program should consist of administrative controls, environmental controls and a respiratory-protection ...

A faculty member at the University of Louisville School of Public Health & Information Sciences has been selected to advise national healthcare leaders on infection control policy. Ruth Carrico, PhD, ...

A report released April 25 by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General confirmed that Dayton VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Ohio failed to follow infection control ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Appeals Board recently ruled in Life Care Center of Kirkland v. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and upheld a finding of immediate jeopardy ...