Epidemiology and Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections Related to Animals in the Hospital David J. Weber William A. Rutala Americans keep a wide variety of animals as household pets. Common pets…
Infection Control and the Employee Health Service Pamela S. Falk Hospitals, although traditionally a refuge for the sick and injured, not only are very dangerous environments for healthcare workers but…
Education of Healthcare Workers in the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections Karen K. Hoffmann Eva P. Clontz In the healthcare setting, ongoing education is required for several reasons. First, all healthcare…
Hand Washing and Hand Disinfection Manfred L. Rotter Although the importance of hands for the transmission of infectious diseases was not demonstrable before the 19th century when medicine began to…
Isolation of Patients With Communicable Diseases Jason E. Bowling Jose Cadena Jan Evans Patterson Despite advances in the control of infectious diseases in the last century, there is more interest…
Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections Katherine Allen-Bridson Gloria C. Morrell Teresa C. Horan Surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to the planning, implementation, and…
A Methodologically Focused Review of the Literature in Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control Matthew Samore Stephan I. Harbarth The use of appropriate epidemiologic methods in experimental design and data analysis…
Antimicrobial Stewardship Dilip Nathwani In the 20th century, the discovery of penicillin was regarded as one of the major medical advances that stimulated “the antibiotic revolution” (1). While transforming the…
Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections Gary L. French HOSPITAL PATHOGENS TEND TO BE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANT AND MULTIPLY RESISTANT To be successful as hospital pathogens, healthcare-associated bacteria must be able to…
Mechanisms of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobial Agents Usha Stiefel Louis B. Rice The vast majority of antimicrobial agents employed in clinical settings are either natural products or chemical derivatives of…
