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Posts about Germs:
Whether someone in your home has been sick, or you simply want to reduce the spread of outside germs into your quarantine environment, one of the...
Today's trio of pathogens are stealthy, living on our bodies without causing us harm but wreaking havoc when they find a way inside a bacteria-free,...
Bacteria,
Contamination Statistics,
Infection Control,
Environmental Services,
Germs,
HAIs,
Patient Safety,
Microbiology,
Epidemiology,
Surveillance
1 min read.
The Usual Suspects: The Microorganisms that Cause HAIs
It is estimated that there are 5×1030 bacteria on Earth. That's 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 5 nonillion. We have not even begun to...
4 min read.
Back to School Bacteria
Millions of American children have returned to school or will very soon, officially kicking off the academic year. Alongside the promise of learning...
Around 248 million years ago, a mass extinction wipes out most life on Earth. Half of all animal families become extinct. Almost every single marine...
Our blog covers many topics in the healthcare field, most of which focus on preventable hospital-acquired infections. In honor of National...
Every year a new class of students start their medical training with a white coat ceremony. The white coat is so synonymous with "Doctor," it seems...
Germ theory, the idea that infection is caused by microscopic organisms unseen to the naked eye, is only a few hundred years old. This theory focuses...
Contamination Statistics,
Bedrails,
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Germs,
HAIs,
Cleaning Protocols,
Patient Safety,
Design,
Epidemiology,
Interventions,
Cost-Effectiveness,
Public Health,
Public Reporting
3 min read.
DALYs and QALYs + HAIs: The Costly Connection
In our previous posts about DALYs and QALYs, we have defined the terms and presented how the healthcare field calculates these two measures of...
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Germs,
HAIs,
Antibiotic Resistance,
Epidemiology,
Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs),
MDROs
2 min read.
A Wave of Candida auris infections: Crashing in Hospitals Nationwide
We've covered Candida auris in this blog before. Not only has it been one of the pathogens of concern cited by the Centers for Disease Control and...
2 min read.
The Golden Age of Microbiology, Part 3
Exploration of the Golden Age of Microbiology would not be complete without a look at how its discoveries impacted hospitals and medical care....