Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...

Hospitals and innovative start-ups are at the forefront of reducing the threat of potentially lethal, antibiotic-resistant bacteria. By educating the public about this issue, and through the rise of ...

OR Turnover Kits (Xodus Medical). The prepackaged OR Turnover Kits include arm board covers, arm board straps, a patient lift sheet, an absorbent table cover, a mop head and bags, including a ...

Each year, more than two million people contract a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) that can also be antibiotic-resistant. In 2013, these infections resulted in at least 23,000 deaths (CDC). In fact, ...

Hospital-related infections have been widely reported during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, with healthcare professionals bearing a disproportionate risk. However, a proactive response in Hong Kong ...

Among 13 hospital units including nearly 3,800 healthcare providers, adherence to expected practice was greater among the units asked to directly glove without hand hygiene compared with the units ...

Health care-associated infections — illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other health care facility — sicken millions of people each year and cost billions of dollars in ...

Researchers report that no hospital acquired infections occurred among healthcare workers at public hospitals in Hong Kong after the first 6 weeks of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak — even though these ...

In 1989, Dr Narin Sehgal got a licence to open a five-bedded nursing home in Delhi’s Paschim Vihar – without having to establish any infection control protocols. “We had learnt about basic ...

Hospital infection control programs can help healthcare organizations monitor and improve practices, identify risks and proactively establish policies to prevent the spread of infections. Judith ...