Hospital Infections is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative guide to the recognition, management, prevention, and control of infections in all types of healthcare facilities.

Hospital Infections new chapters cover:

• patient safety
• public reporting
• controlling antimicrobial-resistant pathogens (especially MRSA and VRE)
• fungi
• healthcare-associated infections caused by newer treatments such as invasive cardiology

Contents

General Considerations of Hospital Infections

1. Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections
2. The Healthcare Epidemiologist
3. Hand Hygiene
4. Personnel Health Services
5. The Development of Infection Surveillance and Control Programs
6. Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections
7. Investigating Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections
8. Epidemiological Methods of Investigating Infections in the Healthcare Setting
9. Use of Computerized Systems in Healthcare Epidemiology
10. The Role of the Laboratory in Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections
11. The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals
12. The Role of Professional and Regulatory Organizations in Infection Control
13. Antimicrobial Stewardship: Programmatic Efforts to Optimize Antimicrobial Use
14. Multiply Drug-Resistant Pathogens: Epidemiology and Control
15. Molecular Biology of Resistance
16. Economic Evaluation of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection Control Interventions
17. Legal Aspects of Healthcare-Associated Infections
18. Infection Control: A Global View

Functional Areas of Concern

19. The Inanimate Environment
20. Sterilization and Disinfection
21. Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities
22. Clinical Laboratory-Acquired Infections
23. Dialysis-Associated Complications and Their Control
24. The Intensive Care Unit: Part A. HAI Epidemiology, Risk Factor, Suveillance, Engineering and Administrative Infection Control Practices, and Impact
25. The Intensice Care Unit: Part B Antibiotic Resistance and Prevention of CVC-BSIs. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections and C. Diffcile
26. The Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
27. The Operating Room
28. Ambulatory Care Settings
29. Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities

Endemic and Epidemic Hospital Infections

30. Incidence and Nature of Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections
31. Urinary Tract Infections
32. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
33. Tuberculosis
34. Infectious Gastroenteritis
35. Center Nervous System Infections
36. Surgical Site Infections
37. Infections of Burn Wounds
38. Infections Due to Infusion Therapy
39. Infections in Implantable Cardiac and Vascular Devices
40. Infections in Skeletal Prostheses
41. The Importance of Infection Control in Controlling Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens
42. Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Viral Infections
43. Blood Borne Pathogen Prevention
44. Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections
45. Infection in Transplant Recipients
46. Miscellaneous Procedure-Related Infections
47. Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections Rate
48. Patient Safety

Index

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