The Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality provides a free, downloadable poster focusing on preventing infection through environmental disinfection. The poster addresses why disinfection is important ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published an infection prevention checklist for outpatient settings. The checklist, “Infection Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings: Minimum ...

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente offers a complimentary infection control toolkit to serve as a resource for infection preventionists assessing or expanding infection prevention programs. The ...

SEMBACH, Germany – A select group of Army dentists, enlisted dental specialists and civilian dental staff assigned to the Rhineland-Pfalz Dental Activity recently took part in specialized training ...

Nosocomial infections are infections that are acquired while at a health care facility and are not present at the time of admission. Nosocomial infections are many times also called hospital acquired ...

While seemingly esoteric and of little impact to health workers and the public, a little known group is creating a firestorm in the public health community. The Healthcare Infection Control Advisory ...

Accrediting organizations (AO) don't have a specific standard on waiting room infection control, but there are still issues you can be called out on. A patient walks into your waiting room with a ...

The CDC giving an official name to the vaping-related illness that has resulted in 2,506 hospitalizations and 54 deaths across the country was the top-read story on Becker’s Clinical Leadership & ...

Researchers say the same team-building and problem-solving skills individuals foster while playing escape room simulation games can be used to help healthcare staff improve their adherence to ...

Inadequate infection prevention and control staffing levels are associated with higher rates of healthcare-associated infections, according to a new study published today in the American Journal of ...