Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

The stethoscope and potential nosocomial infection.

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...

Hospital costs in patients with nosocomial methicillin-resistant or methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.

Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infection • Author(s): Dominique M. Vandijck, PhD; Lieven Annemans, PhD; Dirk P. Vogelaers, PhD; Stijn I. Blot, PhD Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 30, No. 11 (November 2009), p. 1127 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10....

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