Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice ...

During the first 12 weeks of the COVID-19 surge, Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital cared for thousands of patients, including hundreds of them with COVID-19. In a new analysis published in ...

Vaccination and boosting, especially when recent, helped to limit the spread of COVID-19 in California prisons during the first Omicron wave, according to an analysis by researchers at UC San ...

Protecting residents staff ratings requires four actionable infection control steps to improve safety, compliance and operational performance in ...

Mary Duncan, R.N., MSN, CIC, is the senior director of Infection Prevention for the UAB Health System, with 18 years of experience implementing best practices at various health facilities. Her ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can spread rapidly within skilled nursing facilities. After identification of a case of Covid-19 in a skilled nursing facility, ...