Even well-established infection control policies are often abandoned — or at least deviated from — when put into practice during nursing home flu and COVID outbreaks, according to a new study.

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, an international team of researchers investigated the impact of human behavioral changes such as isolation during the coronavirus disease ...

Nurses, patients, and professional groups are pushing for more rigorous infection control standards from the CDC following a preview of proposed changes to its isolation precaution guidelines and an ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers used previously reported empirical clinical data analysis and multi-level mathematical modeling to forecast changes in severe acute ...

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Here are 11 infection-control measures and their accompanying recommended steps for implementation for internal construction and repair projects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

In absence of a vaccine, compliance with infection prevention & control (IPC) measures remains the most effective intervention to control the COVID-19 outbreak. Our Weekly Epidemiology Report ...

A new study conducted by clinician-scientists at a dozen neonatal intensive care units, or NICUs, across North America found that enhanced infection prevention measures were highly effective in ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...