Nosocomial viral respiratory infections cause considerable illness and death on pediatric wards. Common causes of these infections include respiratory syncytial virus and influenza. Although primarily a community pathogen, rhinovirus als...
Nosocomial viral respiratory infections cause considerable illness and death on pediatric wards. Common causes of these infections include respiratory syncytial virus and influenza. Although primarily a community pathogen, rhinovirus als...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has published its latest infection control guideline, "Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals. The infection ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has published its latest infection control guideline, "Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals. The infection ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) has published its latest infection control guideline, "Guideline for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals. The infection ...
The risk of acquiring organisms, transmitting them to others, or causing a nosocomial infection may vary with the susceptibility of the patient and the typ...
A spectrum of IgE-mediated to latex is presented in this report of 14 patients, including health care workers, sensitized by exposure to latex gloves. Symptoms often occurred immediately after exposure to latex, and manifestations varied...
This Z-part document updates and replaces the previously published Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumo...
To evaluate the effectiveness of three different types of handcleansing agents in decontaminating gloved hands that were inoculated with a series of four n...
Handwashing is generally considered the most important procedure in preventing nosocomial infections, because many types of these infections may be caused ...
To prevent nosocomial infections, hospitals use two types of procedures: routine patient care practices (handwashing, for example), which are used in appropriate circumstances on all patients, and more intensive isolation precautions, wh...
To prevent nosocomial infections, hospitals use two types of procedures: routine patient care practices (handwashing, for example), which are used in appropriate circumstances on all patients, and more intensive isolation precautions, wh...
Conversion of an intensive care unit (ICU) from an open unit to isolation rooms permitted study of patient care practices, colonization and infection in both settings. Air sampling and observation of patient care practices included 99 of...
To assess the current state of hospitals' surveillance and control programs (ISCPs) nationwide and to provide a sampling frame for selecting hospitals for ...
Using a daily questionnaire, we prospectively studied 277 physicians from two hospital medical services for incidents of exposure to blood and body fluids ...
