Infection prevention enterprise risk demands direct board engagement and informed oversight to reduce financial, operational, and reputational harm.

This HealthLeaders podcast focuses on several infection prevention topics, including respiratory virus season, emerging pathogen considerations, and healthcare-acquired conditions. Health systems and ...

Hospitals have spent decades strengthening infection prevention programs, yet hospital-acquired infections remain one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges, affecting hundreds of thousands of ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. Melissa Schaefer, MD, medical officer in ...

Calculator provides individualized recommendations based on risk and complexity factors. (HealthDay News) — A novel calculator allows facilities to staff their infection prevention and control program ...

In a recent letter to leaders in Congress, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) highlighted the “astonishing lack of attention to infection prevention and ...

Europe’s next two decades will test whether closer cooperation, trusted data sharing, and community-centered prevention can outpace fragmentation and rising infectious risks.

Delivering on their commitment to provide healthcare workers with better learning methodologies, Emory University’s Healthcare Human Factors Lab (HHFL), Relias, and Inception XR are partnering to ...

The neonatal unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary has temporarily paused external admissions and the birthing pools are out of ...

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...

After Near Eradication, the World's Deadliest Infection Is Making a Fierce Comeback in the U.S.