This was driven in particular by a reduction in severe infection-related illness, defined as a deep surgical-site, deep ...

For the first time in 17 years, physicians and researchers have published updated guidance for infection prevention and ...

A scoping review reveals that nurses’ routine use of non-sterile gloves during IV antibiotic preparation offers no proven protection, and may actually undermine infection control, increase costs, and ...

Background This systematic review collected and synthesised evidence on the efficacy and effectiveness of commonly used hand hygiene materials and methods for removing or inactivating pathogens on ...

Introduction This systematic review identified and examined the theories, barriers and enablers, behaviour change techniques (BCTs), and design features of interventions that have been leveraged to ...

Efforts to improve handwashing don’t always include basics of access to soap + water Lack of hand hygiene causes annual 740,000 deaths from diarrhoea or respiratory infections But despite global ...

Antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm, 3D illustration. Biofilm is a community of bacteria where they aquire antibiotic resistance and communicate with each other by quorum sensing molecules ...

1 Department of Hospital Infection Management, Xiaodian District People’s Hospital, Taiyuan, China 2 Management Office, Jiangsu Provincial Geriatric Hospital (Jiangsu Province Official Hospital), ...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a structured hand hygiene intervention in improving infection control practices among healthcare workers (HCWs) in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Elmhurst ...