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Outbreak Investigation, Prevention, and Control in Health Care Settings: Critical Issues in Patient Safety
Kathleen Meehan Arias
其他書名
Critical Issues in Patient Safety
出版Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2009-02-10
主題Law / Health
ISBN14496331379781449633134
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fGusXwKJjm4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Healthcare facilities play an integral role in interrupting the transmission of infectious agents and recognizing, preventing, and controlling outbreaks caused by infectious and noninfectious agents.This comprehensive resource offers practical guidance for the future or practicing health care professional who must be prepared to recognize and investigate outbreaks and identify effective interventions that can be used to interrupt and prevent outbreaks.With hundreds of references and examples of actual outbreaks, this is an ideal resource for infection prevention and control professionals, hospital epidemiologists, clinical laboratory scientists and health care quality management personnel. The Second Edition is a thorough revision that offers the most up-to-date information, examples, tables, statistics, and readings.Features:Explains epidemiologic principles as they apply to the health care setting.Serves as a reference for published reports pertaining to the identification, investigation, prevention, and control of outbreaks in a variety of settings.Presents practical guidelines for identifying, investigating, preventing, and controlling outbreaks caused by either infectious of noninfectious agents.Discusses the use of information technology in infection surveillance, prevention and control programs.Is accompanied by a complete set of appendices with guidelines, recommendations, and case definitions. See "Samples" for the complete list of Appendices. © 2010 | 435 pages