Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using a traditional definition of health care-associated influenza missed more than 80% of possible cases ...

Over 50% of EU care home residents get infections yearly, with respiratory and urinary infections most common, ECDC study ...

Influenza- and ARI-associated hospitalization rates in adults were highest in those with underlying medical conditions, but the risk was mediated by influenza vaccination.

Currently, no single U.S. surveillance system can provide estimates of the burden of all types of health care–associated infections ... that met NHSN surveillance definition criteria, with ...

HICPAC has made 540 recommendations for infectious disease control ... best practices for preventing and controlling health care-associated infections. It shared guidelines on disinfection ...

"Urinary catheters can be associated ... by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) and is the product of a collaborative effort led by SHEA, with the Infectious Diseases Society of America ...

The Enhanced Detection System for Healthcare-Associated Transmission system uses genomic sequencing to analyze infectious disease samples from patients. If two or more patients have near-idenical ...

And yet, some knew it was inevitable, given the many near misses in the decades prior, with infectious diseases ... also to keep patients safe from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

technologies can accurately identify cases of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) even in complex clinical scenarios. The study, which highlights the need for clear and consistent language when ...

Every day in the U.S., 1 in 31 hospital patients contracts at least one healthcare-associated infection ... extremely vulnerable to work-acquired infectious diseases. The Covid-19 pandemic ...