Bennett & Brachman's hospital infections

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jarvis, William R. [ (William Robert)] , 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins , c2007
Edition:5th ed
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505 0 |a 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 for 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 -- 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 -- 24A. The intensive care unit: part A. HAI epidemiology, risk factors, surveillance, engineering and administrative infection control practices, and impact -- 24B. The intensive care unit: part B. antibiotic resistance and prevention of CVC-BSIs, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and C. difficile -- 25. The newborn nursery and the neonatal intensive care unit -- 26. The operating room -- 27. Ambulatory care setting -- 28. Infections in long-term care facilities -- 29. Incidence and nature of endemic and epidemic healthcare-associated infections -- 30. Urinary tract infections -- 31. Hospital-acquired pneumonia -- 32. Tuberculosis -- 33. Infectious gastroenteritis -- 34. Central nervous system infections -- 35. Surgical site infections -- 36. Infections of burn wounds -- 37. Infections due to infusion therapy -- 38. Infections of implantable cardiac and vascular devices -- 39. Infections in skeletal prostheses -- 40. The importance of infection control in controlling antimicrobial-resistant pathogens -- 41. Healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections -- 42. Blood borne pathogen prevention -- 43. Healthcare-associated fungal infections -- 44. Infection in transplant recipients -- 45. Miscellaneous procedure-related infections -- 46. Public reporting of healthcare-associated infection rates -- 47. Patient safety 
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