Hospital privacy curtains may harbor dangerous germs—new study

Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to new research published in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). The longitudinal, prospective, pilot study tracked the contamination rate of ten freshly laundered privacy […]

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