American Journal of Infection Control

This case study is part of a series centered on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance definitions. This specific case study focuses on the

This case study is part of a series centered on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance definitions. This specific case study focuses on the

This case study is part of a series centered on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance definitions. This specific case study focuses on the

This case study is part of a series centered on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance definitions. This specific case study focuses on the

This case study is part of a series centered on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance definitions. This specific case study focuses on the

Diarrheal illness outbreaks caused by norovirus or C. difficile infections (CDI) are among the most frequent health care-associated infections in long-term care (LTC) facilities.1 Approximately 60% of norovirus outbreaks and over half of all health

During the COVID-19 global pandemic, maintaining adequate staffing in healthcare facilities is critical to providing a safe work environment for health care professionals (HCP) and safe patient care.1 As fluctuations in the number of COVID-19 cases

: Israel began a mass vaccination program with the rapid rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 BNT162b2 vaccine for adults. At the same time, government stringency measures in terms of closing public life were decreased. Our objective was to

The recent paper by Shepard et al¹ raised questions regarding recommendations for prevention and reduced costs of health care-associated infections (HAIs). According to the study, the results demonstrated that patients with HAI had lower total daily

The sero-epidemiology of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at a household level has been assessed through screening contacts of medically attended adult index cases, using cohorts with limited numbers of infected children, and/or outside the US.1-3