Infection Control

In a recent announcement, The Joint Commission has urged hospitals and other accredited organizations to review their sterilization and high-...Read More »

In the May issue of The Joint Commission Perspectives™, The Joint Commission lists top standard compliance issues for 2010...Read More »

Our colleagues over at the Patient Safety Monitor blog found an interesting project this week we’d like to share:...Read More »

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

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

In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee released a new...Read More »

Of all the challenges U.S. hospitals face, few are as unifying as hand hygiene-extremely important and, as many facilities struggle with...Read More »

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

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...Read More »

A team approach to reducing infections resulted in the neonatal ICU (NICU) of Children's Hospital at Providence in Anchorage, AK...Read More »