The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority offers a free infection control assessment tool for ambulatory surgery centers. “Monitoring the Use of Evidence-Based Best Practices for Prevention of ...

CMS and the CDC have begun a three-year pilot project that will use data from educational pilot surveys conducted in nursing homes and hospitals to evaluate the efficacy of current infection control ...

A free infection control assessment tool for ambulatory surgery facilities is available from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. The tool assesses ambulatory surgery facilities’ compliance in ...

An assessment of nearly 70 ambulatory surgical centers in three states found that lapses in infection control were common, including for practices such as hand hygiene, injection and medication safety ...

The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new roadmap that acknowledges the increased medical needs of residents, the rise ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

The Department of Health released a report on Thursday recommending all long-term facilities with pediatric and adult ventilator beds have an infection control plan that allows for separation of sick ...

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 ...

: DOCUMENT OBTAINED BY NEWSNINE IS SHEDDING MORE LIGHT ON THE DEADLY COVID-19 OUTBREAK AT THE STATE VETERANS HOME LAST YEAR. IT INCLUDES INFORMATION THAT WAS NOT MADE PUBLIC IN A RECENT REPORT TOUTED ...

Infection Shield launches free 10-min IPAC Mini Assessment to help LTC homes quickly identify gaps and boost infection control readiness. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA ...

Show More 1 Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and BMT, The Children’s Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore, Pakistan Infection prevention among children with cancer is a major ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development offers a free, downloadable infection control assessment tool for healthcare organizations. The 33-page tool was crafted by a number of healthcare ...