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The stethoscope and potential nosocomial infection.

Animals in healthcare facilities: recommendations to minimize potential risks.

Animals may be present in healthcare facilities for multiple reasons. Although specific laws regarding the use of service animals in public facilities were established in the United States in 1990, the widespread presence of animals in hospitals, including service animals to assist in patient therapy and research, has resulted in the increased presence of animals in acute care hospitals and amb...

Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: hospital location of catheter insertion.

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 33 / Issue 10 / October 2012, pp 1057 1058 DOI: 10.1086/667771, Published online: 02 January 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0195941700031842 How to cite this article: David J. Weber, JaHyun Kang, Vickie M. Brown, Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett and William A. Rutala (2012). Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tr...

Requirements for infrastructure and essential activities of infection control and epidemiology in hospitals: a consensus panel report. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

The scientific basis for claims of efficacy of nosocomial infection surveillance and control programs was established by the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control project. Subsequent analyses have demonstrated nosocomial infection prevention and control programs to be not only clinically effective but also cost-effective. Although governmental and professional organizations have...

APIC/CHICA-Canada/CBIC infection prevention, control and epidemiology: professional and practice standards.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc (APIC) and the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association-Canada (CHICA-Canada) collaborated to craft this document, Infection prevention, control and epidemiology: Professional and practice standards. Both professional organizations affirm their responsibility to their memberships and the public they serve t...