The Infection Control Professionals of Southern New England provides a free, downloadable brochure on Clostridium Difficile infection. It also provides steps to properly wash hands with soap and water ...

If your diarrhea from C. diff is very severe ... contact with them and then with patients or residents. You can also become infected if you touch clothing, sheets, or other surfaces that have ...

She discusses 10 steps healthcare providers can take to prevent a C. diff outbreak in their facilities. 1. Place patient in contact precautions ... “APIC has produced some tremendously valuable ...

C. diff Awareness Month is meant to raise awareness for patients and clinicians on the risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of this debilitating disease. All month long, resources such ...

Providing staff, visitors, and patients with frontline education and feedback about the transmission of C difficile is critical for prevention and management of the infectious disease in health ...

2. Under the new initiative, the companies will create a software-based platform to offer surveillance, consultation, support and education to C. diff patients, in conjunction with a care coordinator.

After they better understood why C. diff was spreading, Wohlgezogen was able to institute a plan to decrease rates, starting with patient and staff education. To mitigate excess travel of family ...

When a hospital patient is taking antibiotics, the next person to use the same bed may face an elevated risk of infection with the dangerous germ Clostridium difficile, a new study suggests.

Researchers conducted epidemiologic strain typing of C. difficile to identify both the prevalence of different strains, as well as the impact of distinct strains on disease severity and patient ...

Researchers reached their conclusions by washing C. diff-contaminated cotton sheets at high temperatures using industrial detergent. They found that traces of the bacteria lingered afterward.

(WEAR) — Half a million people this year will get an infection called C. diff. It ranges from uncomfortable ... a donor's healthy stool into the patient's colon, to bring back a normal balance.