Mask use by patients in common areas in health care settings. A minimum six-foot distance between patients. Standards for reducing infection risk with pulmonary ... other sources such as the Centers ...

Older adults may have diminished ... for common vaccine-preventable diseases. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Infection Preventionist’s Guide to Long-Term ...

Infection control and quality measurement were the continued focus of state-level assisted living regulations and legislation ...

Several websites are provided below with general information related to healthcare associated infections and infection control. Mandated disease reporting ... available include: Acute Care, Long-Term ...

Surgical site infections can be prevented during pain relief procedures, anesthesiologists and pain physicians say.

Measles is a highly contagious disease that is spread ... for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Healthcare Settings guideline (RPAP) and the Prevention and Control of Occupational Infections ...

Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc, and Kimon Zachary, MD, physicians in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and assistant professors of Medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are infections caused by a wide variety of common and unusual bacteria, fungi, and viruses during the course of receiving medical care ... to Disease ...

Viral illnesses have been on the rise this winter across the U.S., with norovirus – or stomach bug – infections nearly doubling from a year ago. Nursing ...