Bennett & Brachman's hospital infections
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ,
c2007
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| Edition: | 5th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 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