Quick Reference to Outbreak Investigation and Control in Health Care Facilities

Softcover: 339 pages
11" x 8.5"
ISBN 0834211793
9780834211797
Jones & Bartlett
February 2000
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This excellent reference book contains guidelines for recognizing, investigating and controlling outbreaks and clusters of infection in health care facilities.

This resource is designed to help the infection control professional recognize, investigate, and control outbreaks; use epidemiologic principles to identify and describe infectious and non-infectious events; gain a new perspective on risk factors, and implement effective surveillance programs. This is the only comprehensive book for practitioners who are responsible for outbreaks in health care facilities. It is an essential resource on how to:

apply epidemiologic principles
set up routine surveillance programs
recognize clusters and potential outbreaks
investigate an outbreak
conduct a literature search
choose appropriate statistical methods needed to investigate an outbreak, and
recognize the role of the laboratory in outbreak investigation.

Additionally, Quick Reference to Outbreak Investigation and Control in Health Care Facilities is in an 8 1/2 x 11 format with ready-to-use information such as sample forms, checklists, and reports compiled by experts in the field. Topics fully covered include:

Routine Surveillance Programs for Health Care Facilities
Outbreaks Reported in Acute Care Facilities * Outbreaks Reported in the Long-Term Care Setting
Outbreaks Reported in the Ambulatory Care Setting
Pseudo-Outbreaks Reported in Health Care Facilities
Organisms and Diseases Associated With Outbreaks in Various Health Care Settings
Investigation and Control of Outbreaks in the Health Care Setting
Conducting a Literature Search
Statistical Methods Used in Outbreak Investigation
The Role of the Laboratory in Outbreak Investigation
Collecting, Organizing, and Displaying Epidemiologic Data
Appendixes
Glossary

This is an official APIC publication. The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC) is a multi-disciplinary voluntary international organization with over 10,000 members. Its purpose is to influence, support and improve the quality of healthcare through the practice and management of infection control and the application of epidemiology in all health settings. The organization, which is based in Washington, DC, is led by an elected board of members who volunteer their time and expertise.

The Association for Practitioners in Infection Control (APIC) was conceived in 1972 out of recognition of the need for an organized, systematic approach to the "control" of infections acquired as a result of hospitalization. The name was changed to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC), in 1994 to recognize the organization's maturation and evolution into the broader context of healthcare delivery in this country, which includes the study of non-infectious adverse outcomes and the movement of care outside the traditional healthcare system, specifically the hospital.

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