Infection Prevention and Control Issues in the Environment of Care, Second Edition
About two million cases and 90,000 associated deaths per year in the U.S. are due to healthcare-associated infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This book addresses unique infection control (IC) issues in all healthcare settings (including long-term care organizations, clinics, and dialysis centers) by helping EC professionals:
Explore the connection between Joint Commission IC and EC standards- Conduct risk assessments before, during, and after construction
- Focus on personnel/staff issues
- Tackle equipment and environmental services needs
- Address utility maintenance and use
- Focus on life-threatening emergency management issues
- Use PI/PM to track data on these issues
This new edition is an easy-to-use guide featuring checklists, case studies, side-by-side comparisons and more, to help you organize and benchmark IC efforts with plans that have proven effective elsewhere.
Published 2009 by the Joint Commission Resources, Inc. - 142 pages.
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