Eliminating HAIs : a primer

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• Alternative Title:
  Eliminating healthcare-associated infections : a primer ; Healthcare-associated infections : strategies for elimination ; Toward elimination of healthcare-associated infections ; Toward elimination of healthcare-associated infections--the Pennsylvania experience
• Personal Author:
  Brennan, Patrick J. ; Richards, Chesley ; Straube, Barry
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communication. ; National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (U.S.), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
• Content Notes:
  On Thursday, October 15, Dr. Frieden introduced the second session of the Public Health Grand Rounds entitled "Eliminating HAIs: a primer", a presentation on healthcare-associated infections presented by Chesley Richards, MD, Deputy Director DHQP. P.J. Brennan, MD, who has been instrumental in establishing Pennsylvania as the first state to report HAI data hospital-wide, led a focused discussion along with Barry Straube, MD, who discussed the role that Medicare and Medicaid will play in eliminating HAIs. Facilitator: Dr. Tanja Popovic, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds.
  
  Title from title screen (viewed November 17, 2010).
  
  Mode of access: World Wide Web as streaming video (144 MB, total time: 1:04:15) and as an Acrobat .pdf file (1.6 MB, 81 p.).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cross Infection/prevention & Control Hospitals Infection Control
• Series:
  Public Health Grand Rounds
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Lectures ; Webinar
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resource; remote
• Citation:
  Public health grand rounds ; 2009 October 15
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2242ea7444ce49a4277741e2a8aed337501dc7d58933323b08c1ea80d531cd3f3dda13b5a082d2739f819a5665f2914d73f4e72bc2b71ae60e478efddbf33d8e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5813/cdc_5813_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 28.78 MB ]