The rate of 3 healthcare-associated infections hit a 5-year high in US hospitals during COVID-19.
The initiative in Texas was associated with reduced staff burnout during COVID-19 without increased healthcare-associated infections.
The trial found perioperative use of piperacillin-tazobactam significantly reduced surgical-site infections.
The off-label use of the product occurred at two Turkish hospitals, and the outbreak has now sickened 87 people.
US healthcare facilities saw a spike in cases and transmission of the deadly, multidrug-resistant yeast in 2020 and 2021.
People on dialysis for kidney disease are 100 times more likely to have Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections than other people.
The strategy aims to address global gaps in infection and control exposed by the COVID pandemic.
A study of 97 hospitals in the United States and Canada found that the incidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) and invasive bacterial infection (IBI) in infants with fever fell to pre-pandemic levels by early 2022, researchers reported yesterday in Pediatrics.
A new report from Scotland's national health service shows that three key healthcare-associated infections remained stable or declined from 2020 to 2021.
Central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated events, and C difficile infections all increased.