A Layered Approach To Infection Prevention
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are challenging, costly, and difficult to prevent and treat. That’s why hospitals need multiple layers of defense...
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Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are challenging, costly, and difficult to prevent and treat. That’s why hospitals need multiple layers of defense...
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Infection preventionists are being asked to identify ways to help address some their organizations’ most pressing challenges, such as reducing...
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a spore-forming bacterium capable of causing gastrointestinal conditions ranging from diarrhea to colitis. Twenty years...
The Spaulding classification system1 classifies ultrasound probes that contact mucous membranes or non-intact skin, as semi-critical medical devices. The Centers...
This glossary of terms is a primer on the vocabulary information technology professionals use and with which infection preventionists should...
The transmission and infection risk associated with multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) carriers necessitates surveillance and tracking to provide proper contact precautions....
HLD is defined as the complete elimination of all organisms except for large numbers of bacterial spores. The trophon EPR...
Chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG), an antiseptic, has been around for more than 50 years. CHG has been used in various ways...
There is an important place for both the horizontal, as well as the vertical approach to preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)....