Infection Control in Health Care Facilities

Summary Documents

• Prevention Strategies for Seasonal Influenza in Healthcare Settings
• Interim Guidance for Influenza Outbreak Management in Long-Term Care Facilities
• Settings Where High-Risk Persons & Their Contacts May Be Targeted For Vaccination
• Prevention & Control of Influenza in the Peri- and Postpartum Settings
• Interim Guidance for the Use of Masks to Control Influenza Transmission

Guidelines

• Standard Precautions Excerpt from the Isolation Guideline
• Droplet Precautions Excerpt from the Isolation Guideline
• Respiratory Hygiene/Cough Etiquette
• Influenza excerpt from the Pneumonia Guideline
• Influenza excerpt from the Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel Guideline 
• Preventing Infections in HCST/Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients
• Prevention of influenza in long-term care facilities
  Bradley SF, The Long-Term-Care Committee of the Society for health-care Epidemiology of America. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1999;20:629-37
• HICPAC Guidelines

Educational Resources

• How-to Guide: Improving Hand Hygiene [234 KB, 32 pages]
  A user-friendly improvement tool for hand hygiene practices and the use of gloves among healthcare workers. From the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) website.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Healthcare Settings
  Slides, video and posters demonstrating use of PPE
• Cover Your Cough materials
• Promotional Campaigns
• Patient Safety

Related Resources

• Interim Guidance on Planning for the Use of Surgical Masks and Respirators in Health Care Settings during an Influenza Pandemic
• EID Journal: Influenza Outbreak Control in Confined Settings