The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has released a draft of its National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in long-term healthcare facilities.
Infection Control
Officials at Exeter (N.H.) Hospital announced its plans for a new health center and musculoskeletal center will move forward, despite the recent outbreak of hepatitis C, according to a Union Leader report.
Researchers determined the number of MRSA infections at academic medical centers increased from 20.9 per 1,000 hospital discharges in 2003 to 41.7 per 1,000 hospital discharges in 2008, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Read…
The CDC has released a basic infection control and prevention plan for outpatient oncology settings.
Nine patients have died and another 10 were treated for infections caused by contaminated intravenous feeding bags at six different Alabama hospitals, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
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Children enrolled in a state Medicaid program who had surgery when they were younger than 3 years old were 60 percent more likely to subsequently be diagnosed with development and behavioral disorders than a similar group of siblings who did…
At a March 10 meeting on anesthesia in pediatric patients, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that information is insufficient to draw a definitive conclusion on the effects of anesthesia on cognitive function in young children, according to an ASA…
Rabih Darouiche, MD, director of the center for prostheses infection at Baylor College of Medicine and founder of the Multidisciplinary Alliance Against Device-Related Infections, discusses tactics to decrease hospital-acquired infections.
Due to an unexpected increase in infections, officials at UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh are threatening to use disciplinary action against any physicians and staff who do fail to follow infection control guidelines, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. Hospital administrators…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has delayed the addition of data on hospital-acquired conditions to its Hospital Compare website, citing an error in the CMS data file used to calculate the HAC measures, according to an AHA News…