Join Andrew Nobilini from ProEdge Dental Water Labs and Kellie Thimmes from SafeLink Consulting as they tackle the question of how to make infection control practices stick at the office level.

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 ...

People are no longer asked to cover their mouth for a cough or sneeze. That was the old recommendation. The revised cough/sneeze guideline is to aim into the elbow. Germs are less likely to spread ...

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, ...

A new study that looked at dental office compliance with infection-control guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that implementation was neither complete nor ...

Reports of several types of healthcare-associated infections skyrocketed in 2020 as hospitals were contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new national surveillance data. Per a Centers for ...

In office settings, code compliance, energy savings, and comfort control were always among the top priorities. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stakeholders are asking a few additional questions ...

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 ...

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), in collaboration with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Infectious Diseases Society of ...

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 ...

The cabinet approved measures on Tuesday to combat antimicrobial resistance and hospital infections, which health minister Michalis Damianos described as “one of the most serious threats to patient ...