_______________________________________________________________ Healthcare-Associated Infections
SAMPLE OF GUIDELINES RELATED TO PREVENTING AND MANAGING HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
Organization
Guideline(s)
American College of Chest Physicians/American Association for Bronchology American Institute of Architects American Thoracic Society/ Infectious Diseases Society of America Canadian Critical Care Trials Group/Canadian Critical Care Society Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Consensus statement: prevention of flexible bronchoscopy-associated infection (2005, updated 2015)
Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities (as of 2022, there are separate guidelines for hospitals and outpatient facilities) Management of adults with hospital-acquired, ventilator-associated, and healthcare-associated pneumonia (2005, updated 2016)
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (2004, updated 2008)
Prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (2009, 2014) Disinfection and sterilization in healthcare facilities (2008) Isolation precautions (2007) Management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings (2006) Prevention of healthcare-associated pneumonia (2003) Environmental infection control in healthcare facilities (2003, updated 2014, 2018, 2019) Hand hygiene in healthcare settings (2002)
Prevention of intravascular device-related infections (2011) Prevention of surgical site infections (1999, updated 2017)
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults (2009) Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection in acute care hospitals (2014) Prevention of nosocomial transmission of multidrug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and enterococcus (2003, 2014) Multi-society guideline for reprocessing flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes (2003, 2021) Clostridioides difficile infection in adults (2010, updated 2017, focused update 2021)
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Infectious Diseases Society of America Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Joint
Prevention of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals (1997)
Committee on the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America/Infectious Diseases Society of America (published as supplement to Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology , 2008)
Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator- associated pneumonia, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, surgical site infections in acute care hospitals, and transmission of methicillin-resistant S. aureus and C. difficile infections (updated 2022)
World Health Organization (WHO) Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Infections: A Practical Guide , 2nd ed. (2002) Source: [18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29; 30; 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; 36; 37; 38; 39; 40; 41]
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