Applying standardized definitions and surveillance methods for tracking healthcare-associated infections is the next step in improving infection control in hospital settings, according to an article ...

Hospitals that participated in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network showed they were able to decrease healthcare-associated infection rates by 50 percent, thereby decreasing healthcare costs, ...

Incentivizing infection control via subsidies could help encourage regional spending healthcare infection control activities, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), often called hospital-acquired infections, are the bugs patients pick up while receiving care in a hospital, or after discharge. These infections are picked up ...

The pandemic-era spike in healthcare-associated infections was significantly more severe among smaller community hospitals than their larger academic medical center counterparts, according to a new ...

A new proof-of-concept study published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) reports that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can accurately identify cases of ...

Reports of several types of healthcare-associated infections skyrocketed in 2020 as hospitals were contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new national surveillance data. Per a Centers for ...

The consequences of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) reach well beyond patients' physical health, souring social relationships, and leading some healthcare providers (HCP) to distance ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Hospital Acquired Infection Control - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Global Hospital Acquired Infection ...

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 ...