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To prepare NYS hospitals for reporting in The National Healthcare Safety Network's Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module, the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) launched a voluntary Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative (ASC) in

To prepare NYS hospitals for reporting in The National Health Care Safety Network's Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module, the Health care Association of New York State (HANYS) launched a voluntary Antibiotic Stewardship Collaborative (ASC)

Journal of Advanced Nursing, Volume 79, Issue 8, Page 3147-3159, August 2023.

To determine the relationship between home disinfectant use and the prevalence of antibiotic resistance among environmental isolates of human pathogens.

Healthcare environments are a reservoir for several pathogens that can result in healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) leading to prolonged length of stay in hospital, long-term disabilities, and increased risk of mortality.1 According to the

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are the leading cause of hospital-associated infection (HAI), with 80% attributable to indwelling urinary catheters. Despite implementation of a urinary catheter management protocol (UCMP), catheter-associated urinary

To describe daily environmental cleaning and disinfection practices and their associations with cleaning rates while exploring contextual factors experienced by healthcare workers involved in the cleaning process.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has globally spread and been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020.1 COVID-19 has been spreading

It is essential for health care personnel (HCP) to follow the basic principles of protection to ensure that infectious material does not reach unprotected skin or mucous membranes while patient care is being provided. Personal protective equipment