Establishing quality improvement studies for your ASC is essential to meeting accreditation requirements by the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care, but more importantly, QI studies ...

While the demand for home health services grows, the lack of infection prevention oversight presents a problem. Editor's Note: This story is part one of a two part series. When HealthLeaders ...

Chemoradiation in Stage IIIB Cancer of the Uterine Cervix: A Review of the Zimbabwean Experience Our work was a prospective before-and-after study to improve IPC standards. We compared the WHO Hand ...

Over the years, Becker’s Hospital Review has run numerous articles describing the growing strain on health system leadership: margin pressure, workforce instability, rising patient acuity and ...

Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, is president of Infection Control Consulting Services based in Blue Bell, Pa. Q: Do you place soiled briefs of a Clostridium Difficile patient in a red bag or in plain trash?

For years, hospitals penny-pinching on infection control has been an open secret. Whether Covid-19 will puncture that pre-pandemic complacency is an open question. But it’s long past time for every ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every 20 hospitalized patients will contract a healthcare-associated infection. The spread of these infections, however, can be ...

The first major update to long-term care infection prevention and control recommendations in 17 years offer providers a new roadmap that acknowledges the increased medical needs of residents, the rise ...

Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...

Infectious Disease is the study of human and animal diseases caused by microorganisms. Students studying infectious disease at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health take courses in areas ...

Devin Jopp discusses home health's current lack of lack of infection prevention oversight. Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series. Read part one here. HealthLeaders continues the ...