Evidence-based interventions, such as educational strategies, clinical practice guidelines, and audit and feedback, are ...

Infections are all-too-common in nursing homes. And all-too-often facilities treat these conditions with large doses of antibiotics. Now the Obama Administration has announced a major initiative aimed ...

Many nursing homes have inadequate antibiotic stewardship programs and lack properly trained infection preventionists, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control. For ...

Antibiotics are prescribed incorrectly to ailing nursing home residents up to 75% of the time, the nation’s public health watchdog says. The reasons vary -- wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong duration or ...

(Reuters Health) - Some nursing home facilities prescribe antibiotics more often than others, which is tied to increased health risks, even for residents who don’t receive the medications, according ...

Here's a sobering public health statistic: Up to 75% of nursing home residents -- which translates into millions of elder adults -- are being administered antibiotics incorrectly. To combat the ...