Infection preventionists are reaching out to policymakers for help with the regulatory process around the current convoluted medical device cleaning instructions, known as instructions for use or IFUs, with which…
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One of the widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement is hand hygiene compliance. While it plays a significant role in breaking the chain of infection, hand hygiene is…
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In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk of death in people hospitalized for COVID-19 was substantially higher than in people hospitalized for seasonal influenza. The risk of death…
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If a tick is infected with the pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi, these bacteria can be transmitted to humans through a tick bite and cause illness. Various organ systems can be affected,…
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Despite Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval of seven next-generation antibiotics to fight infections caused by resistant Gram-negative bacteria, clinicians frequently continue to treat antibiotic-resistant infections with older generic antibiotics considered…
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To infect an organ, viruses need the help of the host cells. “An effective approach is therefore to identify targets in the host that can be manipulated by drugs so…
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Common household products containing nanoparticles – grains of engineered material so miniscule they are invisible to the eye – could be contributing to a new form of indoor air pollution,…
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In this quality improvement study of 35 healthcare facilities in Orange County, California, using quasi-experimental design, chlorhexidine bathing and nasal decolonization were associated with significantly lower multidrug-resistant organism prevalence and…
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New research from Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) – recently published online in the journal Research in Nursing & Health – has successfully validated a…
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The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) has issued a new guidance document that provides expert recommendations on fundamental areas of clinical testing for respiratory viral infections….
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Scientists have taken a major step toward developing a blood test that could identify millions of people who spread tuberculosis unknowingly. A breakthrough study has discovered a group of biological…
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