“From an environmental hygiene perspective, a patient room is the environmental services (EVS) worker’s patient,” says Ruth ...

The risk of getting a deadly, treatment-resistant infection in a hospital or nursing home is dropping for the first time in decades, thanks to new guidelines on antibiotic use and stricter cleaning ...

This article appears in the March 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Of the long list of contagious infections quality leaders deal with, Clostridium difficile is perhaps the most troublesome. And ...

But the balance of healthy bacteria may be disrupted after taking antibiotics, leading to an overgrowth of C. diff and the release of toxins. Antibiotics intended to treat infections elsewhere in the ...

C. diff-associated diarrhea (CDAD) places financial stress on U.S. hospitals. A study of 170,000 discharges from 477 hospitals from 2009-2011 calculated that a CDAD case can increase a hospital stay ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clostridiumdifficile infection (also known as C. diff or CDI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and is a ...

During my family's annual vacation last year, I got COVID-19. Frustrated by having to cancel so many plans, I remember thinking, "At least it can't get much worse than this." As a nurse and mom though ...

TUESDAY, August 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — C. diff, which is short for Clostridioides difficile, is a type of bacteria that may cause serious problems in the digestive system. It is one of the most ...