(CBS) Privacy may not be the only thing hospital curtains give patients. A new study suggests privacy curtains may be a source of infectious bacteria, including ...

Privacy curtains in hospital rooms might offer patients some personal dignity, but they can also harbor dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. That's the claim of a new ...

The next time you're at a hospital, you might want to think twice before touching the privacy curtains that hang around patient beds, a small new study finds. That's because these curtains can ...

Hospital privacy curtains are a breeding ground for potentially deadly superbugs. The curtains, which are frequently touched by patients, have been found to contain dangerous MRSA. They are also a ...

The hospital was full, so I couldn’t be moved ... Later that afternoon, through the privacy curtain, Bob shared that seven years ago his wife had died from breast cancer and, in many ways ...

Patient privacy curtains, used in most healthcare facilities ... at the University of Michigan Medical Center, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, USA, looked at the prevalence of curtain ...

The cubicle or privacy curtain has been a fixture in clinics, hospitals, and skilled-nursing facilities for decades. They serve a critical function in both maintaining patient and resident privacy and ...

Rate of contamination of hospital privacy curtains in a burns/plastic ward: A longitudinal study. American Journal of Infection Control, 2018; 46 (9): 1019 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2018.03.004. Subscribe ...

More information: Kevin Shek et al, Rate of contamination of hospital privacy curtains in a burns/plastic ward: A longitudinal study, American Journal of Infection Control (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.

"There is growing recognition that the hospital environment plays an important role in the transmission of infections in the health care setting and it's clear that these (privacy curtains ...