Hospitalists play a crucial role in combating hospital-acquired infections. Learn about the strategies that are proving to be ...

This ability may allow the bacteria to persist longer on hospital surfaces and inside medical devices—areas once assumed to ...

Doctors also refer to nosocomial infections as healthcare-associated infections (HAI ... They depend on the type or source of infection, the pathogen that caused it, and whether the infection ...

We were surprised to find that some hospital germs, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, might be able to break down plastic. P ...

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

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with 559,000 yearly deaths worldwide, and many of them come from hospital-acquired ...

The Healthcare-Associated Infections dataset, updated April 30, includes performance data for five types… ...

Doctors describe the type of pneumonia you have based on where you got the infection. You may hear health professionals use these terms: Hospital-acquired pneumonia. You catch this type during a ...

Tift Regional Medical Center in Tifton is one of 339 hospitals in the U.S. and one of eight hospitals in Georgia to have a Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) rate of zero, as based ...

The five Intermountain Health Colorado hospitals, which include Grand Junction’s St. Mary’s Regional Hospital, recently ...

One type of important ... lymph node Wound infections caused by E. faecalis are harder to treat than those caused by other types of bacteria. The following factors are associated with higher ...