Sustaining Success: Principles of Infection Prevention and Control in Health Care Settings, Part 1: Facility Management and Planning [0.03%]
Sorabh Dhar,Keith S Kaye
Sorabh Dhar
Yasmeen Mann,Anita Shallal,Marcus Zervos et al.
Yasmeen Mann et al.
Infection prevention and control programs play a key role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and reducing antimicrobial resistance. HAIs account for a large amount of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with disproportiona...
Michael Y Lin,William E Trick
Michael Y Lin
Computer informatics is integral to infection control, a role that will grow as surveillance and reporting become increasingly automated. Surveillance applications include automated infection monitoring, device utilization calculations, and...
Evaluation and Management of Occupational Exposures and Postexposure Prophylaxis [0.03%]
职业暴露与职业暴露后预防的评估和管理
David J Weber,Andy Gottlieb,Erica S Shenoy
David J Weber
Health care personnel (HCP) are at risk of exposure to infectious agents depending on their job duties and other factors. Risks include percutaneous exposure to blood-borne pathogens via sharp injuries (eg, human immunodeficiency virus, hep...
The Built Environment and Reservoirs of Antimicrobial Resistance: Are Mitigation and Prevention Possible Using Design and Daily Facility Operations Strategies? [0.03%]
建筑环境与抗菌药物耐药菌库：设计及日常设施运行策略能够缓解和预防吗？
Angela D Booth-Jones,Russell N Olmsted
Angela D Booth-Jones
Antimicrobial resistance is a global concern, and the built environment needed for direct care of patients and residents and associated delivery of support services can be a significant reservoir of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Th...
Implementing, Maintaining, and Evaluating Water Management Programs in Health Care: The Multidisciplinary Effort to Prevent Infections from Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens [0.03%]
医疗保健中水资源管理项目的实施、维护和评估：预防机会性供水病原体感染的多学科努力
Shantini D Gamage,Meredith Ambrose,Vincent Rizzo Jr et al.
Shantini D Gamage et al.
Water management programs (WMPs) are fundamental for ongoing control of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens in health care building water distribution systems. There is consensus about the components of these programs: a multidisciplin...
Occupational Health Update (2025): Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis [0.03%]
职业健康更新（2025）：医疗人员健康评估方法和暴露前预防措施的运用
Andy Gottlieb,David J Weber,Erica S Shenoy
Andy Gottlieb
Occupational Health Services (OHS) play a critical role in evaluating and protecting health care personnel (HCP) from occupational exposure to communicable diseases. In this article, updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Ad...
Sterilization and High-level Disinfection in 2026: New and Emerging Topics [0.03%]
2026年的灭菌与高水平消毒：新话题与发展趋势
Emily Sickbert-Bennett,Erica S Shenoy,David J Weber
Emily Sickbert-Bennett
Sterilization and high-level disinfection (HLD) of critical and semicritical medical devices, respectively, has garnered close attention by infection preventionists, sterile processing experts, regulators, clinicians, and patients due to in...
Morgan Davidson,Natalie Schnell,Emily Sickbert-Bennett
Morgan Davidson
Although hand hygiene is considered a fundamental defense against infection spread, maintaining high, consistent compliance remains an ongoing challenge. Even after the COVID-19 pandemic placed hand hygiene in the spotlight, initially high ...
Armani M Hawes,Payal K Patel
Armani M Hawes
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are common and expensive hospital-acquired infections. Many CAUTIs are preventable, with the 2 greatest risk factors being initial placement of the catheter when it may not be necessary ...