CDC’s Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
• Description:
  Adherence to infection prevention and control practices is essential to providing safe and high quality patient care across all settings where healthcare is delivered
  
  This document concisely describes a core set of infection prevention and control practices that are required in all healthcare settings, regardless of the type of healthcare provided. The practices were selected from among existing CDC recommendations and are the subset that represent fundamental standards of care that are not expected to change based on emerging evidence or to be regularly altered by changes in technology or practices, and are applicable across the continuum of healthcare settings. The practices outlined in this document are intended to serve as a standard reference and reduce the need to repeatedly evaluate practices that are considered basic and accepted as standards of medical care. Readers should consult the full texts of CDC healthcare infection control guidelines for background, rationale, and related infection prevention recommendations for more comprehensive information.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Introduction -- Scope -- Methods -- Text References -- Core Practices Table -- Table References.
• Subjects:
  Cross Infection/prevention & Control Disinfection/methods Infection Control/methods
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a9109156d5ddacbf30aff816cb1e353b45017fa8525f11bb02b24418ca776b6b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/134781/cdc_134781_DS1.pdf
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