Infection Prevention and Control
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AHA this week released a resource on strategies and tactics that hospitals and health systems can adopt to prevent and control health care-associated infections.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating four locally acquired malaria cases in Florida and one in Texas, the first locally acquired U.S. cases since 2003.
Waleed Javaid, M.D., director of infection prevention and control at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, shares successful strategies for eliminating healthcare-associated infections.
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are a big problem in health systems across the country.
When Jefferson Health set reducing its rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) as a primary focus for 2020, it didn’t need to reach for new, fancy or exotic methods to achieve this goal.
Multiple interventions are driving quality improvements to reduce healthcare-associated infections at Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Mo. The common threads in all interventions are effective daily communication and follow-up.
The advantages of a central line are obvious when a patient needs drugs given through their veins over a long period of time, or for kidney dialysis. In these cases, a central line is easier and less painful than having needles inserted in the patient’s veins each time they need therapy.
Since 2011, the Florida Department of Health’s Health Care-Associated Infection Prevention Program has used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) HAI data metrics for surveillance and prevention efforts
The infection prevention and control team at New York-Presbyterian Queens took action after the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) rose significantly across the hospital.
When it comes to infection control, the South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) has really taken to heart the ironclad medical principle: First, do no harm.