Guide to infection prevention for outpatient settings : minimum expectations for safe care

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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:
  This Guide has been updated to include the "Infection Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings" (Appendix A).
  
  The following document is a summary guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambulatory care) settings. The recommendations included in this document are not new but rather reflect existing evidence-based guidelines produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. This summary guide is based primarily upon elements of Standard Precautions and represents the minimum infection prevention expectations for safe care in ambulatory care settings. Readers are urged to use the Infection Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings (Appendix A), a companion to the summary guide, and to consult the full guidelines for additional background, rationale, and evidence behind each recommendation.
  
  CS250247
  
  
• Subjects:
  Ambulatory Care Facilities/standards Checklist Cross Infection/prevention & Control Infection Control/methods Infection Control/standards
• Document Type:
  Book
• Genre:
  Guideline
• Pages in Document:
  33 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7822a826ebee1b2be1bea7d02559dec31ce6a0ac7c2764027562cf0a72fb04b8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25622/cdc_25622_DS1.pdf
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