Doral, Fla.-based Jackson West Medical Center opened in August 2021 with a road map for preventing hospital acquired infections that is now being scaled across the system. “From the very beginning, we ...

Javad Parvizi Have you ever asked a medical student or resident to define periprosthetic joint infection? Most students would define it as a condition in which an infecting organism is present in ...

Although the 2018 ICM definition had a sensitivity of 16% and a positive predictive value of 44%, Higuera-Rueda noted it had a specificity of 89% to determine infection control before reimplantation.

Federal regulators have quietly put in place new, stricter enforcement measures for nursing homes that struggle to meet infection control and vaccine immunization requirements for residents and staff.

Patients and physicians have different views about what constitutes a sinus infection, which could result in communication issues and misdiagnoses, new research suggests.

Listen to this story Infection control: How a pathogen survives a hostile environment 0:00 / 0:00 For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — ...

The CDC challenged draft 2024 infection control guidelines sent to the agency for approval from the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), asking for clarification on ...

The definition does not require laboratory confirmation or other proof of initial infection. Long COVID can follow SARS-CoV-2 infection of any severity, including asymptomatic infections, whether ...

November 8, 2011 — A new evidence-based definition and diagnostic criteria for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) should improve uniformity of diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance, according ...

Global Infection Control Market Size, Share And Growth Analysis For 2024-2033. Date. 8/14/2024 10:31:19 AM ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its definition of what it means to be in close contact with an infected person and therefore at risk of contracting the coronavirus.

Two positive tests at an interval of at least 102 days with one interim negative test have been defined as SARS-CoV-2 re-infection or relapse of COVID-19 by Indian scientists for establishing ...