Combating the C. diff 'terrorists' on the loose in hospitals
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Just like intelligence agents watching for the real terrorists threatening to attack, monitoring health-care worker adherence to mandatory hand-washing protocols via hand-washing squads in hospitals can go a long way to stop outbreaks of the opportunistic C. diff bacteria, says an infection prevention and control expert.