Infection-control experts warn that basic, overlooked safeguards are increasingly becoming weak links in patient safety — ...

Hospital-acquired infections continue to be an issue in health care settings. Despite the progress that’s been made to identify the common causes of the infections and prevent them from happening, ...

Whether a patient or visitor, hand hygiene while at the hospital is critical. Luis Alvarez/Digital Vision via Getty Images Nasia Safdar: These are infections that occur as a result of exposure to the ...

Any surgery poses a risk of infection, but patients can help reduce those risks. Here are some steps recommended by the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, a ...

Avoiding the unnecessary use of indwelling catheters and promptly removing catheters that are no longer needed are the first steps in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute ...

Teamwork, along with communication and awareness, can build an effective infection prevention program. Infection prevention and control is fundamental to providing safe and high-quality patient care.

Healthcare‑associated infections are infections that surface 48 hours after a patient’s admission, or, within a month after discharge, and they have no link to the original reason for the stay. They ...

Hospitals are meant to be places of healing, but patients often pick up new infections there that are potentially dangerous and hard to treat. A new, experimental vaccine given on arrival to hospital ...

Several healthcare acquired infections (HAIs), such as central line-associated bloodstream infections and ventilator events, showed increased prevalence in 2021, according to new data released by the ...

Antibiotic prophylaxis failed to reduce the incidence of hospital-acquired infections or overall mortality among patients with decompensated cirrhosis, according to data published in The American ...

Hospital-acquired infections pose significant health risks to patients, with Staphylococcus aureus and Candida albicans being major contributors. These two pathogens are responsible for a range of ...

A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, ...