The MS in Infection Prevention & Control trains students to work as professionals in the field of infection prevention in public health. Learn more today.

Nurses have always played an important role in infection prevention and control (IPC). The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that fact. Evidence demonstrates that IPC is most effective when all ...

Adherence to standard dialysis infection prevention and control (IPC) measures enabled safe provision of dialysis to patients ...

The SHEA journal, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), is published monthly by University of Chicago Press. It provides original, peer-reviewed scientific articles for professionals ...

On any given day, 1 in 31 hospital patients and 1 in 43 nursing home residents has an infection acquired while seeking medical care, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In an era of hospital budget cuts and staffing freezes, a Florida hospital more than doubled staff positions for infection prevention and control (IPC) over a four-year period, reducing infections ...

But experts are concerned lessons learnt in infection prevention and control are being ignored, and too many people are getting sick and dying after catching the virus in healthcare settings.

AdventHealth Celebration hospital has made gains by doubling its infection prevention and control (IPC) staff. Infections including healthcare-associated infections are a major concern at hospitals.

Rates of infection in hospitals dropped in 2023, according to an annual report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which measures national and state infection rates ...

Hospital-Based Medicine > Infection Control New Guidance to Stem the Tide of MRSA Spread in Hospitals — Detecting asymptomatic infections and decolonization among new recommendations by Ingrid ...