Leapfrog's new fall hospital safety grades, Seattle Children's treating nine kids with a mysterious, polio-like illness and nurses' scrubs' potential to spread germs to patients captured the attention of readers last week.
The following are the 10 most-read articles from Becker's Infection Control & Clinical Quality for the week of Oct. 31, starting with the most popular.
1. Where are the 20 Leapfrog F hospitals?
2. Leapfrog releases fall hospital safety grades: 5 things to know
3. 1 dead, 9 hospitalized with rare polio-like illness at Seattle Children's
4. Robotic instruments are nearly impossible to clean completely, study shows
5. Study links antibiotic resistance with chlorhexidine exposure
6. Is 'battle language' failing cancer patients?
7. Maryland hospital closes NICU for second time in 3 months over deadly bacteria
8. Nurses' scrubs likely aid spread of germs to patients, study finds
9. Nearly 1,000 pregnant US women have Zika
10. Zika likely here to stay, says CDC director