Health care personnel in hospitals often made active failures, including violations, mistakes and slips, in personal protective equipment use and infectious agent transmission precaution practices ...

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Modeling done based on data from a single hospital suggests a transmission-prevention regime meaningfully reduced hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). Efforts to use contact ...

Doctors and other healthcare staff need to take some extra precautions when it comes to treating critically ill coronavirus patients, according to three health professionals. Those treating patients ...

According to Public Health data, pediatric hospitalizations increased by nearly 190% between Dec. 4 and Dec. 25. And while the numbers of children hospitalized remain very small, those 0-4 years old ...

Background. Nosocomial transmission is the second most frequent cause of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. A prospective observational study was conducted to assess the roles of environmental ...

Following indoor precautions such as proper ventilation and free air circulation can prevent the airborne transmission of COVID-19 virus droplets from an infected person beyond 1.5m, suggest experts.

Transmission-based precautions are a necessary part of reducing the risk of infective agents or diseases being transmitted between patients and healthcare workers, and all health and social care staff ...

ALBANY — As state health authorities raced to contain the growing transmission of COVID-19 downstate Wednesday, Capital Region governments and institutions updated the public on precautions they’re ...

On Tuesday, the Bay Area's largest county issued a warning with growing concerns that an uptick in COVID cases could lead to a rise in hospitalizations. The seven-day average positivity rate is ...