Necessary Infrastructure of Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Programs: A Review

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Bryant, Kristina A. ; Harris, Anthony D. ; Gould, Carolyn V. ; Humphreys, Eve ; Lundstrom, Tammy ; Murphy, Denise M. ; Olmsted, Russell ; Oriola, Shannon ; Zerr, Danielle
• Description:
  The scope of a healthcare institution's infection prevention and control/healthcare epidemiology program (IPC/HE) should be driven by the size and complexity of the patient population served, that population's risk for healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and local, state, and national regulatory and accreditation requirements. Essential activities of all IPC/HE programs include but are not limited to the following: ∙ Surveillance.∙ Performance improvement to reduce HAI ∙ Acute event response, including outbreak investigation ∙ Education and training of both healthcare personnel and patients ∙ Reporting of HAI to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network as well as entities required by law.
• Keywords:
  Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, U.S. Cross Infection Disease Outbreaks Health Personnel Humans Infection Control United States
• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 37(4):371-380
• Pubmed ID:
  26832072
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6481289
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  37
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e1b5655717bcf0ac8144def88ac4bcf4ce9fc94af48bb223668793dc274c7461
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/77843/cdc_77843_DS1.pdf
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