ASCs are experiencing increased pressure to demonstrate low incidence of infection and compliance to infection prevention rules and regulations. Louise Dechesser, a surveyor for the Accreditation ...

Perhaps the first randomized trial of an air cleaning device for nursing homes showed no significant impact on the primary endpoint for acute respiratory infection incidence. A secondary analysis did, ...

At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, LoAnn Vande Leest, RN, CEO of The Surgery Center in Franklin, Wis., and Fawn Esser-Lipp, RN, infection preventionist and ...

Checking for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which are notoriously underreported and stigmatized, may soon get easier now that U.S. authorities have recently approved the first commercial ...