Contact precautions, or CP, don’t need to be deemed an “essential practice” to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in acute care facilities, according to doctors who ...

Doctors and other healthcare staff need to take some extra precautions when it comes to treating critically ill coronavirus patients, according to three health professionals. Those treating patients ...

Researchers have suggested placing patients who are asymptomatically colonized with MRSA in contact precautions may not decrease risk of infection, according to a study published in the American ...

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control questions whether contact precaution protocols effectively decrease the risk of healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA. For their ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing (AAPACN) have teamed up to release guidance and tools aimed at ...

World Health Organization (WHO) officials are debating implementing new “airborne precautions” for medical staff treating the coronavirus, according to CNBC. This comes as a study awaiting peer review ...

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, contends that companies that make vaccinations mandatory for their employees likely won’t need any additional ...