Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee issued guidance on the prevention and control of ...

Whether you are placing a central line, managing a Clostridioides difficile case, or keeping a surgical field sterile, you're likely following standards influenced by the Healthcare Infection Control ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its annual progress report on health care-associated infections Jan. 29, which found continued decreases in hospitalizations from multiple ...

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by suggesting ...

Months after the CDC eliminated its infection control committee, two epidemiology organizations have created the Healthcare Infection Prevention Advisory Group. The two organizations, the Association ...

The CDC has released a basic infection control and prevention plan for outpatient oncology settings. This document has been developed for outpatient oncology facilities to serve as a model for a basic ...

The Trump administration shuttered the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), ending three decades of medical advice used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The CDC challenged draft 2024 infection control guidelines sent to the agency for approval from the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), asking for clarification on key ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published an infection prevention checklist for outpatient settings. The checklist, “Infection Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings: Minimum ...

The CDC has ended its healthcare infection control practices advisory committee to comply with President Donald Trump’s “continuing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy” executive order, a ...