Category: Infection Control

Coalinga (Calif.) State Hospital recently informed patients of possible exposure to hepatitis C and HIV through the hospital’s pain clinic, radio station KVPR reported May 25.

Nurses at the bedside play a key role in prevention of hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile in patients, a new study has found.

A Maine resident died from Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease, the state’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention said May 17. 

Preliminary data suggests hospitals are trending back in the right direction to reverse the declines in quality and safety that happened during the pandemic, according to Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group.

Texas health officials are warning clinicians about a string of suspected fungal meningitis cases among state residents who underwent surgery in Mexico.

Texas health officials are warning clinicians about a string of suspected fungal meningitis cases among state residents who underwent surgery in Mexico.

Now is not the time to do away with masks in healthcare settings, two infectious disease physicians wrote in a commentary published May 16 in Annals of Internal Medicine, an indication that the debate over whether hospitals should continue to mandate m…

The CDC published guidance on improving building ventilation to protect people from respiratory infections.

Here are six findings from infection control studies Becker’s has covered since April: 

A new study found a high percentage of COVID-19 deaths may have been caused by a secondary pneumonia infection.