The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality use two different measurement systems to track the U.S. healthcare system’s rates of ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Acute-care hospitals saw significant improvement in many ...

MUNDELEIN, IL--(Marketwired - October 24, 2013) - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common hospital-acquired infection, and ...

Implementation of evidence-based prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement could reduce the incidence of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An expert at SHEA suggested using catheter-associated bacteria as a metric for measuring hospital safety instead ...

North Country Healthcare is an alliance of three critical access hospitals and a home health and hospice agency serving the northernmost region of New Hampshire. Based on CDC studies, staff found that ...

This is an excerpt from the HCPro book, Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Second Edition. A variety of teams exist in the healthcare environment, and many of them can offer ...

Including senior leaders in CAUTI prevention is a critical aspect of the design and implementation of infection prevention programs. Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the upcoming book Preventing ...

Prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement could help decrease the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Results of a national survey of infection control experts highlight the shortcomings of the widely used Foley urinary catheter. The new findings may help explain why ...