New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April) shows that contamination of privacy curtains ...

Patient privacy curtains in hospitals became increasingly contaminated with pathogens and most tested positive for MRSA after 21 days of being hung, according to findings published in the American ...

“We know that privacy curtains pose a high risk for cross-contamination because they are frequently touched but infrequently changed,” said lead study author Kevin Shek. “The high rate of ...

A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control shows that the majority of freshly laundered privacy curtains hanging in patient rooms over the course of 21 days acquired the deadly ...

Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new research. Without timely intervention ...

Privacy curtains in hospital rooms might offer patients some personal dignity, but they can also harbor dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. That's the claim of a new ...

Last month, after entering Kaiser hospital in Terra Linda for minor surgery, a nurse led me to a double-occupancy room on the fifth floor. As I passed by my roommate-to-be, a glance told me he was he ...