Infection prevention checklist for dental settings : basic expectations for safe care

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Oral Health.
• Description:
  The following is a companion to the Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care. The checklist should be used—
  
  1. To ensure the dental health care setting has appropriate infection prevention policies and practices in place, including appropriate training and education of dental health care personnel (DHCP) on infection prevention practices, and adequate supplies to allow DHCP to provide safe care and a safe working environment.
  
  2. To systematically assess personnel compliance with the expected infection prevention practices and to provide feedback to DHCP regarding performance. Assessment of compliance should be conducted by direct observation of DHCP during the performance of their duties.
  
  CS 258389-C
  
  safe-care-checklist.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Checklist Dental Offices/standards Dentistry/standards Infection Control, Dental/standards Infection Control/standards Oral Health/standards Universal Precautions
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  19 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bddf35a3558c358a73d66c0168fb81c6f9d4f6e0bb13fc2fba2c0296e33785a8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/41782/cdc_41782_DS1.pdf
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