Healthcare-associated infections - Topics

What does an infection control department actually do in a hospital? Do hospital accreditation inspections really bring infection rates down? Why nursing home residents are missing from most infection statistics Can a hospital infection control committee shut down a whole ward? Why alcohol rub does not work on C. difficile spores Why healthcare-associated infection rates fell and then plateaued What counts as a healthcare-associated infection and what does not Infection control staffing in small rural hospitals Who pays when a surgical site infection extends a hospital stay Comparing hospital infection data across countries and why it rarely works What is the difference between bacterial colonization and infection in a hospital patient? Isolation precautions and the patients who end up with fewer visits because of them Visiting hours and isolation rules that families only find out about at the door What happens to a patient who screens positive for MRSA on admission Do patients have a right to know their hospital infection rate? Reporting mandates for hospital infection rates and what actually gets published What a hospital epidemiologist does during an outbreak investigation Hand hygiene compliance in hospitals above 95 percent: real behavior change or audit theater Reprocessing flexible endoscopes and where the protocol quietly breaks down Bloodstream infections from peripheral IVs that never get counted Why did it take so long for doctors to accept that they should wash their hands? Post-discharge surveillance and the infections hospitals never see Why the same infection gets counted differently by two hospitals How do you measure whether a deep clean made any difference? Antimicrobial stewardship teams: who really decides when to stop the antibiotics Preventing infection when a family member is on dialysis Catheter-associated urinary tract infection: why the simplest device is the hardest to remove on time How device days are used to compare infection rates between hospitals Why resistant infections cost so much more to treat Disinfection robots and whether they earn their cost Why the reported infection rate dropped after the surveillance definition changed Copper surfaces in hospitals: does the evidence hold up?