Think back to your last visit to a hospital as a patient or family member. Every patient care area has recognizable, ubiquitous items, such as automated blood pressure pumps, compression pumps, and IV...

Research findings call on hospital leaders to take a deeper look at how staff—primarily nurses—interact with patients, to determine a way for patients at highest risk for infection to come...

The terms “contact,” “droplet,” and “airborne” refer to what?...

Encouraging healthcare workers to get their flu shots has been a patient safety and quality of care issue for years. Mandatory public reporting of this hospital quality measure is finally moving the n...

Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is difficult to eradicate, much to the annoyance of many hospital infection preventionists....

Surgical site infections are the most frequently occurring HAI, accounting for one-third of the annual cost or about $3.3 billion. But central line-associated bloodstream infections are the most exp...

As part of its ongoing mission to eliminate needlestick and sharps injuries in healthcare, Safe in Common has issued the "Top 10 Golden Rules of Safety," a set of guidelines to "unify t...

Every so often, the topic of steam sterilization comes up when discussing infection control issues. I recently came across a fantastic article in the Journal of the Association of periOperative Regist...

How would you prove that you communicate important quality and patient safety information to the members of the medical staff as well as to appropriate hospital staff?...

All hospitals must evaluate whether or not they are willing and able to accept a large influx of infected patients. If a hospital decides it is willing and capable of accepting such patients, what doe...