Surveillance must stay the cornerstone of infection control program.
This report describes a multimodal infection control program designed to control a sustained outbreak Acinetobacter colonization.
Dr. Rajiv Jain, the hospital's chief of staff, said its infection control program cost about $500,000 a year, including test kits, salaries for three workers and the $175-per-patient expense of gloves, gowns and hand sanitizer.
OBJECTIVES: In 1999 and 2004, the New York State NYS Department of Healthth conducted a survey of acute care hospital (ACH) infection control program resources and responsibilities.
CA-UTI has been the focus of our infection control program for 9 years with little progress prior to this project.
We describe how an urban teaching hospital's infection control program cooperated with contractors during a large demolition, construction, and renovation project in order to protect its large population of immunosuppressed patients.
We implemented an infection control program consisting of education, hand hygiene, disinfection, symptom screening, and ILI case management.
OBJECTIVES: Describe two 2009-H1N1 influenza outbreaks in university-based summer camps and the implementation of an infection control program.
Despite implementation of an infection control program, a second ILI cluster began on July 12 in Academic Camp-2 (n = 47, 15.0% attack rate).
It would mandate that employers establish a comprehensive infection control program, as well as subject them to citations and fines if they fail to provide training or equipment.
Therefore, the screening of HCWs for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is crucial in an infection control program [2].
