New guidance issued to providers and state survey agencies adds the use of personal protective equipment during high-contact care activities to its infection and prevention and control standards ...

Reusable infection control barriers ease hospital renovation. Aug. 23, 2016. One of the biggest issues in healthcare reconstruction is balancing the construction work with the hospital’s need to ...

Widely used hospital gowns show signs of exposing workers to infection . July 11, 2022 at 2:01 pm Updated July 11, ... Luria said, but infection control should be prioritized over comfort.

3 key barriers facing infection prevention and control efforts From drug resistance to the growing threat of Candida auris , today’s infection preventionists face a growing to-do list with ...

A lack of infection prevention skills and knowledge, a lack of behavior regulation systems, and failure to consistently practice prevention control were some of the most common barriers that ...

The association between carer training and infection rates is unknown. No evidence of surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in the community is currently available in the UK. A qualitative ...

Widely used hospital gowns show signs of exposing workers to infection ... a textile-testing expert at Florida State University and published in the American Journal of Infection Control in 2021.