Preventing Preventable Infections
Hand hygiene can be a matter of life and death. In 1848, Ignaz Semmelweis, the “father of hand hygiene,” demonstrated a relationship between increased rates of maternal death and contaminated hands in an Austrian...
Communicable disease transmission. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when because it’s only a matter of time. It happens in the best of medical centers. I know because it happened...
Depending on whether your laboratory uses a standalone or multi-step testing algorithm and depending on the test methodology(ies) used — and in which order — a positive C. diff test might be detecting colonization...
Being hospitalized can be a scary event for many reasons. Getting a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) is just one reason. One in 31 patients has at least one HAI during their hospitalization. Infections can lead...
