The SHEA journal, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), is published monthly by University of Chicago Press. It provides original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for professionals ...

Disinfectants are used extensively for surface cleaning, floor cleaning, and equipment cleaning in critical care units and ...

Doral, Fla.-based Jackson West Medical Center opened in August 2021 with a road map for preventing hospital acquired infections that is now being scaled across the system. “From the very beginning, we ...

On any given day, 1 in 31 hospital patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents has an infection acquired while seeking medical care, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Major players in the hospital-acquired infection control market are Belimed AG, Advanced Sterilization Products Services Inc., 3M Company, Getinge AB, Olympus Corporation, Ecolab Inc., Steris ...

SMS hospital administration has roped in a private rodent control firm to tackle the menace of rats in the hospital. Rats in the hospital are causing damage to costly equipment, risking infection ...

Hospital infection control experts question validity of public reporting metrics in new survey Infection control experts found that certain quality metrics are seen as low value and should be ...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care ...

Total, or hospital-wide, surveillance-collection of comprehensive data on all infections in the facility, with the aim of correcting problems as they arise. This is labor intensive. Surveillance ...

Dublin, Dec. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Hospital-Acquired Infection Control Global Market Report 2022: Ukraine-Russia War Impact" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering ...

Hospital-Based Medicine > Infection Control New Guidance to Stem the Tide of MRSA Spread in Hospitals — Detecting asymptomatic infections and decolonization among new recommendations ...