Essential Resources for Effective Infection Prevention and Control Programs: A Matter of Patient Safety - A Discussion Paper (2010)

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Table of Contents

• Foreward and Acknowledgements
• Infection Control Guidelines Steering Committee Members
• Infection Control Guidelines Steering Committee Liaison Members
• Ex Officio Members
• Working Group: Essential Resources for Infection Prevention and Control Programs
• Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
• 1.0 Executive Summary
  • 1.1 Recommended Resources and Activities for an Effective Infection Prevention and Control Program
• 2.0 Introduction
• 3.0 Health care associated infections are an important problem
  • 3.1 Impacts of health care associated infections: an overview
  • 3.2 Costs and rates of health care associated infections
    • 3.2.1 Acute care setting
    • 3.2.2 Long-term care setting
    • 3.2.3 Ambulatory care setting
    • 3.2.4 Home care setting
    • 3.2.5 Antimicrobial resistant organisms
• 4.0 Changes in Health Care and their Impact on Infection Prevention and Control Programs
  • 4.1 Health care needs of specific populations
  • 4.2 Increasing complexity of patients
  • 4.3 Increasing complexity of treatment interventions
  • 4.4 Realignment of health care delivery across the continuum of care
  • 4.5 Changes in health care funding
  • 4.6 Implications for Infection Prevention and Control Programs
  • 4.7 Limited resources for Infection Prevention and Control Programs
• 5.0 Importance of Infection Prevention and Control Programs
  • 5.1 Evolution of Infection Prevention and Control Programs
  • 5.2 Infection prevention and control programs and patient safety
  • 5.3 Evidence of efficacy of infection prevention and control programs
    • 5.3.1 Acute care setting
    • 5.3.2 Long-term care setting
    • 5.3.3 Ambulatory care setting
    • 5.3.4 Home care setting
• 6.0 Resources for Effective Infection Prevention and Control Programs
  • 6.1 Recommendations
• 7.0 Conclusion
• References

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