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Guidelines for preventing health-care-associated pneumonia, 2003; recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee; [pt. II-III]
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Corporate Authors:Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. ; National Center for Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
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Description:"This report updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC "Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia and other severe, acute lower respiratory tract infections in acute-care hospitals and in other health-care settings (e.g., ambulatory and long-term care institutions) and other facilities where health care is provided." - p. 1
"This report consists of Parts II and III of a three-part document and contains the consensus HICPAC recommendations for the prevention of the following infections: bacterial pneumonia, Legionnaires disease, pertussis, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), lower respiratory tract infections caused by RSV, parainfluenza and adenoviruses, and influenza. Part III provides suggested performance indicators to assist infection-control personnel in monitoring the implementation of the guideline recommendations in their facilities. Part I of the guideline provides the background for the recommendations and includes a discussion of the epidemiology, diagnosis, pathogenesis, modes of transmission, and prevention and control of the infections. Part I can be an important resource for educating health-care personnel. Because education of health-care personnel is the cornerstone of an effective infection-control program, health-care agencies should give high priority to continuing infection-control education programs for their staff members." - p. 2
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Content Notes:prepared by Ofelia C. Tablan, Larry J. Anderson, Richard Besser, Carolyn Bridges, Rana Hajjeh.
Parts 2 and 3 of a larger (179 p.) work with the same title, published on the Web at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/guidelines/CDCpneumo%5Fguidelines.pdf.
"March 26, 2004."
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"The material in this report originated in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, James M. Hughes, M.D., Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Denise M. Cardo, M.D., Director, and the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Mitchell L. Cohen, M.D., Director."
Also available via the World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-35).
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