Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — At this year’s Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual ...

Results from the Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting showed the 2018 International Consensus Meeting definition for periprosthetic joint infection had poor accuracy in identifying ...

A Musculoskeletal Infection Society working group led by Javad Parvizi, MD, director of research at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson, has proposed criteria that would make way for a new definition ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently narrowed its definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) to exclude asymptomatic bacteriuria. Although CAUTI rates ...

While nursing homes have had six years to prepare for new infection preventionist guidance, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services revealed last week they will not necessarily need to appoint ...

In response to the growing prevalence of post-surgical periprosthetic infections, researchers have proposed criteria that would shape a new definition for periprosthetic joint infections, according to ...

Despite more than 12,000 infection control-related citations given during the COVID-19 pandemic, most U.S. nursing homes didn’t see their ratings change much in updated Five-Star guidance published ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Work to reduce the number of infections patients acquire during hospitalization is just one in an array of efforts underway to improve patient care at Borgess Medical Center, officials ...