Infection Prevention

Voluntary medical male circumcision can reduce the risk for HIV acquisition among men who have sex with men who primarily practice insertive anal sex, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial conducted in China.

Better definition of hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia patients could improve care, including reducing mortality rates, higher readmission risk and cost, and longer length of stay, a study found.

ORLANDO — In this video, Emily N. Gaddam, RN, BSN, CIC, MHDS, a nurse epidemiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, explains how the facility uses a team-based approach to reduce the spread of Candida auris.

Experts published new recommendations focused on helping hospitals implement evidence-based infection prevention recommendations into practice.

A Pittsburgh hospital curbed neurosurgical infections by more than 80% over 2 years through a multidisciplinary intervention that assessed adherence to surgical site infection prevention recommendations, data show.

ORLANDO — Business intelligence software helped improve hand hygiene compliance by making data available and easily accessible in real time, researchers shared at the APIC 2023 meeting.

ORLANDO — An automated hand hygiene monitoring system improved hand hygiene compliance at a New Jersey hospital, according to results presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual conference.

The annual conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology will highlight strategies to improve hospital infection prevention practices and efforts to increase infection prevention and control staffing.

President Joe Biden is set to announce former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, as the next director of the CDC, according to multiple reports.

Infections that require hospital treatment were associated with increased risk for major cardiovascular disease events immediately after hospitalization, with a small increased risk in the long term, researchers reported.