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Recommendations for change in infection prevention programs and practice

Fifty years of evolution in infection prevention and control programs have involved significant accomplishments related to clinical practices, methodologies, and technology. However, regulatory mandates, and resource and research limitations, coupled with emerging infection threats such as the COVID...

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Autores principales: Garcia, Robert, Barnes, Sue, Boukidjian, Roy, Goss, Linda Kaye, Spencer, Maureen, Septimus, Edward J., Wright, Marc-Oliver, Munro, Shannon, Reese, Sara M., Fakih, Mohamad G., Edmiston, Charles E., Levesque, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9065600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35525498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.04.007
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Goss, Linda Kaye
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Septimus, Edward J.
Wright, Marc-Oliver
Munro, Shannon
Reese, Sara M.
Fakih, Mohamad G.
Edmiston, Charles E.
Levesque, Martin
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description Fifty years of evolution in infection prevention and control programs have involved significant accomplishments related to clinical practices, methodologies, and technology. However, regulatory mandates, and resource and research limitations, coupled with emerging infection threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, present considerable challenges for infection preventionists. This article provides guidance and recommendations in 14 key areas. These interventions should be considered for implementation by United States health care facilities in the near future.
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spelling pubmed-90656002022-05-04 Recommendations for change in infection prevention programs and practice Garcia, Robert Barnes, Sue Boukidjian, Roy Goss, Linda Kaye Spencer, Maureen Septimus, Edward J. Wright, Marc-Oliver Munro, Shannon Reese, Sara M. Fakih, Mohamad G. Edmiston, Charles E. Levesque, Martin Am J Infect Control Major Article Fifty years of evolution in infection prevention and control programs have involved significant accomplishments related to clinical practices, methodologies, and technology. However, regulatory mandates, and resource and research limitations, coupled with emerging infection threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, present considerable challenges for infection preventionists. This article provides guidance and recommendations in 14 key areas. These interventions should be considered for implementation by United States health care facilities in the near future. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-12 2022-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9065600/ /pubmed/35525498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.04.007 Text en © 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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