Infection Control

Nurses at the bedside play a key role in prevention of hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile in patients, a new study has found.

A Maine resident died from Powassan virus, a rare tick-borne disease, the state's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said May 17. 

Preliminary data suggests hospitals are trending back in the right direction to reverse the declines in quality and safety that happened during the pandemic, according to Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group.

The ambulatory surgery center ecosystem is thriving. New ASCs, whether owned privately or through cooperative investments with hospitals, are springing up across the nation — and their surgical volumes are growing. This trend, driven largely by changes in reimbursement models…

Texas health officials are warning clinicians about a string of suspected fungal meningitis cases among state residents who underwent surgery in Mexico.

Now is not the time to do away with masks in healthcare settings, two infectious disease physicians wrote in a commentary published May 16 in Annals of Internal Medicine, an indication that the debate over whether hospitals should continue to…

The CDC published guidance on improving building ventilation to protect people from respiratory infections.

Here are six findings from infection control studies Becker's has covered since April: 

A new study found a high percentage of COVID-19 deaths may have been caused by a secondary pneumonia infection.

Intermountain Health reduced antibiotic prescribing in urgent care clinics by 15 percent after rolling out new stewardship initiatives, according to a study published May 11 in JAMA Network Open.