Some 500,000 U.S. patients develop surgical site infections (SSIs) annually and more than 10,000 of them die. It is generally estimated that roughly half of all SSIs are preventable using evidenced-based interventions, but many facilities have not adopted such measures….
Nurse burnout and staffing woes lead to higher healthcare-associated infection rates (HAIs) and costs hospitals millions of additional dollars annually, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the…
San Antonio, TX: Given current population demographics, infection prevention following joint replacement surgery is emerging as a new priority to reduce health care costs and patient suffering. In particular, preventing infectious complications following increasingly common knee and hip replacements could…