Researchers conducted a meta-analysis to determine the effectiveness of N95 respirators vs surgical masks in protecting against viral respiratory illness transmission.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society of Microbiology formed a committee to review the potential effect of SARS-CoV-2 genotyping in clinical care settings.
Pneumonia prevention interventions such as proper oral care, head-of-bed elevation, and incentive spirometry, are not being provided to most patients outside the ICU, leading to greater than two-thirds of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Healthcare workers were more likely to partake in hand-hygiene protocols after contaminating tasks vs critical tasks and before such tasks.
Contaminated parenteral nutrition solution is suspected in the deaths of nine patients that developed bacteremia while hospitalized.
