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Posts about Infection Control (7):
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4 Key Terms in Infection Control
The infection control landscape is difficult to navigate without an understanding of the key terms used by experts in the field. Some of these terms...
Bacteria,
Science,
Infection Control,
Copper,
HAIs,
Cleaning Protocols,
Antibiotic Resistance,
Patient Safety,
Infographics,
Antimicrobials,
Design,
Microbiology,
Interventions,
Architecture,
Disinfectants,
Innovations,
Evidence-Based Design
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Just how does copper kill germs?
COVID-19 and other infectious pathogens continue to make headlines, drawing our attention to the technologies being developed to fight these germs....
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4 Ways to Improve Terminal Cleaning
In time for New Years resolutions, let consider ways we can improve terminal cleaning! Terminal cleaning is a thorough, deep-cleaning of a patient...
Patient Advocacy,
Contamination Statistics,
Infection Control,
Hospitals,
Environmental Services,
HAIs,
Cleaning Protocols
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How clean is your Hospital Room?
When we enter a hospital room as a patient, we are seeing the room at its cleanest. The room has just been scrubbed down during what is called...
Surface disinfection has become the new normal. Today's post takes the concept of a high school geometry proof to connect contaminated environments...
Our series on Politics and Science will continue next week! This week is International Infection Prevention Week, an annual event to bring awareness...
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Career Focus: What is a hospital epidemiologist?
Epidemiology is a branch of medicine that studies the way disease moves through human populations, from outbreak to control. The word epidemic itself...