In a recent announcement, The Joint Commission has urged hospitals and other accredited organizations to review their sterilization and high-level disinfection (HLD) processes in detail....

In the May issue of The Joint Commission Perspectives™, The Joint Commission lists top standard compliance issues for 2010. And just like in previous years, ­infection control (IC) standards...

Our colleagues over at the Patient Safety Monitor blog found an interesting project this week we’d like to share: the APIC Infection Prevention Film Festival. ...

True or false: Surgical hand and forearm scrubs should follow manufacturer instructions but are generally two to six minutes of scrubbing...

True or false: Femoral veins are the preferred sites for the insertion of central venous catheters. ...

Of all the challenges U.S. hospitals face, few are as unifying as hand hygiene-extremely important and, as many facilities struggle with compliance, extremely ­difficult to get right. At Alamanc...

In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee released a new set of guidelines to eliminate central line-associated b...

True or false: Hands should be washed or decontaminated with hand gel after every contact with a patient. ...

According to the latest edition of the Archive of Surgery, a basic bedside technique of gently probing a surgical incision to clean the area can result in significantly reduced rates of infection, I...

You can't read anything about patient safety and quality or health reform without running into the topic of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). The issue tops a list of priorities for many heal...