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At North Shore Medical Center in Massachusetts, antibiotics stewardship was the most effective intervention in reducing C. diff infections.

The presence of mold forces the facility to reschedule or move dozens of surgeries.

The hospital made public a CMS on-site inspection that detailed unsanitary and dangerously inadequate disinfection efforts with patient rooms, and...

Prompt identification of patients who are at high risk of sepsis could be the difference between life or death.

The postoperative care initiative at a California-based children's hospital has 11 elements.

Anthony Fauci, MD, and colleagues weigh in on the dangers of the 2019 measles epidemic.

Compared with urban hubs, rural populations tend to have less access to public health resources, less experience with syphilis and...

Any invasive procedure in neonatal intensive care units puts tiny patients at risk of harm.

The adoption of an EMR-based screening tool and a sepsis treatment bundle drove down mortality rates markedly over four years.

Clostridium difficile infections in the hospital setting have the biggest treatment price tag, researchers say.

DRIVe initiative makes deeper forays into innovations that could help predict illness and enhance sepsis detection.

Health officials and doctors treating patients with HIV welcome extra funding but say strategies that work in progressive cities like...