The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant infection in a hospital or nursing home is dropping for the first time in decades, thanks to new guidelines on antibiotic use and stricter cleaning ...

Researchers conducted a model-based economic evaluation to find the cost-effective healthcare intervention for lowering C. diff rates. They synthesized efficacy evidence from research literature and ...

Dangerous bacteria that pose a particular threat to the elderly and very sick hospital patients have been shown to survive on disposable hospital gowns and stainless steel surfaces — even after ...

Nash notes that "Although staff was doing a good job, each person was doing it in their own way. We began a more streamlined approach, and we went to a two-step cleaning process where you clean once ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology provides a free, downloadable and adaptable environmental checklist using sodium hypochlorite for daily cleaning when C. diff is ...

Late last year, The Jewish Hospital-Mercy Health in Cincinnati received a first-place award in a multi-state competition for its efforts to reduce Clostridium difficile infections among inpatients.

C. diff is a horrible disease that can cause significant morbidity. It can and often does recur and kills around 30,000 Americans every year. We have made progress in prevention and treatment, but ...

Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a frequent cause of death among hospitalized older adults. Keystone ...

When Roye-Horn alerted the CDC to the changes in C. diff patients at Hunterdon, she discovered that it was among the first hospitals in the United States to develop the NAP1 strain. At the time there ...

The bacterium C. difficile causes one of the most common infections in hospitals and nursing homes. After climbing for decades, the rate of new... The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant ...