More than 800,000 Americans live with end-stage kidney disease, and over half of them depend on dialysis as a necessary and life-sustaining...
Posts about Cleaning Protocols:
Access to clean water, soap, and basic cleaning products may seem like a given in our nation, leading many of us to overlook the impact poverty can...
Achieving and maintaining sanitized surfaces in hospitals requires an arsenal cleaning and disinfecting products, with quaternary ammonium compounds...
While the general population may use terms like sterilizer, disinfectant and sanitizer interchangeably, they actually have very specific definitions...
Eradicating pathogens from environmental surfaces in hospitals is a daily fight. Keeping bacteria from reproducing on surfaces, finding reservoirs in...
In our previous posts about DALYs and QALYs, we have defined the terms and presented how the healthcare field calculates these two measures of...
Did everyone notice the uptick in respiratory illnesses (including COVID) that started about a week and a half after Thanksgiving? Many of us might...
For those of us who live where winters can be cold, we may be finding ourselves wrapping ourselves up more as we go out, bundling up to stay cozy...
A surprising product recall this week might remind healthcare workers of a known risk in hospital infection control and prevention: The contamination...
We have often discussed the different terms used to describe products that clean the patient environment in this blog. Using the correct terms, and...
Bacteria have been around for, oh, 3.5 billion years or so. They didn't achieve this longevity without collecting a few tricks up their sleeves....
In the 1920’s and 30’s, the nation was swept up in the Efficiency Movement, an effort to rid every aspect of human life of waste and unproductive...