Smaller community hospitals have been most affected by the COVID-19-related uptick in healthcare-associated infections, a study published Aug. 23 in Clinical Infectious Diseases found. Researchers ...

"While much progress has been made, more needs to be done to prevent healthcare-associated infections in a variety of settings," the agency said in the report. "Full engagement between local ...

The Leapfrog Group’s spring 2023 hospital health grades show that healthcare-associated infections are rising following the pandemic, a cause for concern for all providers. With new legislation ...

Doctors also refer to nosocomial infections as healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and hospital-acquired infections. They are infections that people acquire while receiving healthcare ...

The “persistence” of healthcare-associated infections in long-term care settings earned a spot on a new list revealing the top 10 patient safety concerns in 2025. The special long-term care ...

Sometimes when patients are admitted to hospitals, they catch infections known as "hospital-acquired" or ...

The dismantling of HICPAC creates a situation where updates of standards for best practices will have to be undertaken at the ...

One of the most common health care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times more than previously thought, new research has found. IMPACT: The results ...

Every day in the U.S., 1 in 31 hospital patients contracts at least one healthcare-associated infection (HAI). In addition to these patient infections, healthcare workers themselves are extremely ...

A healthcare-associated bacterial infection has been on the rise in Michigan hospitals in recent years, according to a hospital safety analysis published Wednesday, May 3. The average infection ...

Oregon hospitals have reported a modest decline in health care-associated infections (HAIs) among patients in 2023, according to new data from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). The data ...

On any given day, an estimated 7.5 per cent of Irish patients will have a healthcare-associated infection – equivalent to 915 patients a day. Meanwhile, almost 41 per cent of patients are ...