Multisociety guidance recommended that nursing homes employ an infection preventionist and invest in training and preparedness.

The majority of infection control practitioners do not trust their hospital’s laundering system, with 72 percent of ICPs reporting they would not wipe their drinking glass with a freshly laundered ...

After graduating from the Dornsife School of Public Health in 2018, Kevin Smith, Master’s in Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology with a minor in Infectious Disease and Population Health, began working ...

The chair of the infection control committee should have an ongoing interest in the prevention and control of infection. Members should represent microbiology, nursing, the OR, central supply, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical need for educational programs that train and support future infection preventionists. Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health was prepared for this ...

Updated recommendations to reduce infections in nursing homes call for dedicated infection prevention roles, better staff ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract While society would benefit from a reduced incidence of nosocomial infections, there is currently no direct reimbursement to hospitals for the ...

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology provides original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for anyone involved with an infection control or epidemiology program in a hospital or healthcare ...

Patient safety is the primary objective of infection prevention but infection preventionists in a Syracuse healthcare system demonstrate how to make the business case for investing in protocols that ...

Hospitals need to get on the same page when it comes to checking for bloodstream infections among patients seeing as current methods of surveillance vary from facility to facility, according to a ...