Infection Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care [2011]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (U.S.)
• Description:
  The following checklist is a companion to the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. The checklist should be used: 1. To ensure that the facility has appropriate infection prevention policies and procedures in place and supplies to allow healthcare personnel to provide safe care; and, 2. To systematically assess personnel adherence to correct infection prevention practices. (Assessment of adherence should be conducted by direct observation of healthcare personnel during the performance of their duties.)
  
  Facilities using this checklist should identify all procedures performed in their ambulatory setting and refer to appropriate sections to conduct their evaluation. Certain sections may not apply (e.g., some settings may not perform sterilization or high-level disinfection). If the answer to any of the listed questions is No, efforts should be made to correct the practice, appropriately educate healthcare personnel (if applicable), and determine why the correct practice was not being performed. Consideration should also be made for determining the risk posed to patients by the deficient practice. Certain infection control lapses (e.g., re-use of syringes on more than one patient or to access a medication container that is used for subsequent patients; re-use of lancets) can result in bloodborne pathogen transmission and should be halted immediately. Identification of such lapses warrants immediate consultation with the state or local health department and appropriate notification and testing of potentially affected patients.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Ambulatory Care Ambulatory Care Facilities Ambulatory Care Facilities / Standards Cross Infection Cross Infection / Prevention & Control Infection Control Infection Control / Methods Outpatients
• Keywords:
  CS224816 HAI Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  DHQP - Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12366/cdc_12366_DS1.pdf
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