Whether a patient or visitor, hand hygiene while at the hospital is critical. Luis Alvarez/Digital Vision via Getty Images Nasia Safdar: These are infections that occur as a result of exposure to the ...

Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD Key Takeaways Hospital-acquired infections are also known as ...

Rabih Darouiche, MD, director of the center for prostheses infection at Baylor College of Medicine and founder of the Multidisciplinary Alliance Against Device-Related Infections, discusses tactics to ...

The hospital has not had a central line-associated bloodstream infection or a catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the past eight months. AdventHealth Celebration hospital has made gains by ...

A hospital-acquired bacterium that causes serious infections can move from the lungs to the gut inside the same patient, raising the risk of life-threatening sepsis, new research reveals. Published in ...

Opioids affect both the gut and the immune system, said Summer Thompson, an assistant professor studying gut-brain ...

MRSA is often acquired in hospitals, especially among high risk groups such as people in intensive care units (ICUs). Although infection control has improved, MRSA remains a serious problem if not ...

April 13, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Elderly patients treated with central catheter and/or mechanical ventilation devices in intensive care units (ICUs), admitted from the emergency department or ...

Despite widespread implementation of quality improvement initiatives, an estimated $9.8 billion is spent each year treating hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), according to a study published online ...

Delhi government hospitals have introduced a colour-coded bedsheet system under the Kayakalp initiative, ensuring daily linen ...