Five basic approaches can help ambulatory surgical facilities implement infection control best practices, according to expertise from Chuck Peck, MD, managing director of Navigant Consulting and ...

A report by a senior infection prevention analyst at the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority provides five basic infection control best practices for ASCs.

Although infection data are useful, research in infection control requires microbiologic support to conduct realistic studies. Very few infection control programs have the personnel and resources ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a July press conference. An infection control training program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is now available for frontline facility ...

She also gave nursing homes the basic tools to do practice infection control. For example, she connected them with vendors who supplied hand sanitizing dispensers and personal protective equipment.

Bucking the Bug is working to integrate enhanced infection control content to help the future nursing and allied health workforce start their careers with a solid understanding of infection control ...

The need for, and provision of, infection control training is established in the NHS and staff working in both acute and community care settings are well supported in this area. But for nurses working ...

Across the country, many nursing homes have continued to violate infection-control procedures, including basic measures intended to stop the spread of COVID-19.

To summarise, this book is everything it promises to be: a basic guide to infection, prevention and control in dentistry.

Staff training to promote and reinforce adherence to basic infection control practices should also be considered a key component of infection prevention activities within the facility.

Eighty-three nursing homes in the Cincinnati region are among those with infection control violations in last four years, an Enquirer analysis shows.

As surveyors and regulatory agencies turn sharper eyes to nosocomial infections, long-term care providers are finding their infection control policies and procedures more intensely scrutinized ...