Category: Infection Control

Hospitals with lower staffing levels in infection prevention and control teams have higher rates of healthcare-associated infections, according to an Oct. 10 study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

At four hospitals, 46 patients experienced Burkholderia multivorans infections from contaminations within ice machines, the CDC said in its Oct. 3 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 

The winter COVID-19 wave may be smaller this year; the flu virus has mutated and vaccines are expected to not be as effective; and experts are keeping a close eye on possible human-to-human transmission in avian flu, Johns Hopkins public health experts…

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine researchers found that fidaxomicin, a treatment for Clostridioides difficile infection, has increased in use but “remains underutilized.”

A CDC advisory committee has been working to update an influential set of infection control guidelines since August 2023. Over the past year, the agency has faced growing pressure from clinicians, who have criticized early versions of the updated guida…

Vaccine hesitancy appears to be driving up infection rates among diseases like whooping cough, measles and COVID-19.

New Mexico has the highest rate of Clostridium difficile infections for the second year, while Nevada has the lowest, federal data shows.

Hospitals are ramping up their focus on hand hygiene compliance to prevent infections and improve patient safety, new data from The Leapfrog Group suggests. 

Two hundred and sixty-three hospitals in the U.S. have a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rate of zero, as based on the healthcare-associated infections dataset from CMS.

A recent study found patients with a sepsis diagnosis who were discharged to home health care, skilled nursing facilities or home had higher readmission rates.