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:
  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 consult the full guidelines for additional background, rationale, and evidence behind each recommendation.
• Content Notes:
  William A. Rutula and David J. Weber.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 17).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Ambulatory Care Facilities/standards Cross Infection/prevention & Control Infection Control/methods
• Document Type:
  Report
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Pages in Document:
  print; electronic resourc; remote; 17 p.
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b7715662c629556e3aafaa2b12d187e35153bc9a257bb359c0a1bd0276991edd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5952/cdc_5952_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 605.07 KB ]