A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology examined the impact of universal contact precautions on multidrug-resistant organism rates in intensive care units. They examined data ...

When a patient is on standard contact precautions, the healthcare worker caring for that patient should be wearing the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), including gloves, a gown, and a ...

Donna B. Jeffe, Sunita Mutha, Paul B. L'Ecuyer, Lynn E. Kim, Renee B. Singal, Bradley A. Evanoff and Victoria J. Fraser We describe variations in healthcare workers' attitudes toward double gloving ...

Increases in contact isolation do not have corresponding increases in isolation practice compliance among healthcare workers, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital ...

Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, ...

Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

Back in the spring, around the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency, hospitals around the country underwent a change in dress code. The masks that staff had been wearing at work for more than ...