The most influential reference in the field for nearly 20 years, Hospital Infections is now in its thoroughly updated Fourth Edition. Written and edited by internationally recognized authorities -- many affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the book is the most comprehensive and reliable guide to the recognition, management, prevention, and control of nosocomial infections.The Fourth Edition features more than 30 new contributing authors and includes new chapters on tuberculosis; the practice of epidemiology in community hospitals; the role of professional and regulatory organizations in infection control programs; and infection control in developing countries. All chapters from the previous edition have been updated. Coverage includes timely information on the challenges posed by the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis and vancomycin-resistant enterococci. This edition also presents the latest recommendations on universal precautions and isolation systems, as well as on chemoprophylaxis for certain HIV-exposed health care workers.
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This chapter is a review of the basic principles of epidemiology with special emphasis on the relationship to nosocomial infections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hospital epidemiology units, invasive burn wound infection, infectious tuberculosis patients, infection control indicators, noncatheterized patients, nosocomial respiratory syncytial virus infections, respirator education, infection control personnel, implantable objects, infection rate comparisons, wound infection surveillance, noninfected patients, infection control physician, first month posttransplantation, infection control staff, epidemic nosocomial infections, contagion check, infection surveillance data, nosocomial infection data, patients during invasive procedures, skin squamae, hospital epidemiologist, marcescens bacteremia, nosocomial gastroenteritis, hospital infection control programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This chapter is a review of the basic principles of epidemiology with special emphasis on the relationship to nosocomial infections. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hospital epidemiology units, invasive burn wound infection, infectious tuberculosis patients, infection control indicators, noncatheterized patients, nosocomial respiratory syncytial virus infections, respirator education, infection control personnel, implantable objects, infection rate comparisons, wound infection surveillance, noninfected patients, infection control physician, first month posttransplantation, infection control staff, epidemic nosocomial infections, contagion check, infection surveillance data, nosocomial infection data, patients during invasive procedures, skin squamae, hospital epidemiologist, marcescens bacteremia, nosocomial gastroenteritis, hospital infection control programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Ann Intern Med, Clin Microbiol, New York, Arch Intern Med, Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, Crit Care Med, Arch Surg, Antimicrob Agents Chemother, Fourth Edition, National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance, Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Ann Surg, American Hospital Association, Obstet Gynecol, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, Intensive Care Med, Federal Register, Clin Microbial, Clin Pathol, Surg Gynecol Obstet, Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Journal of Diseases of Children New!
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- Medical Harm: Historical, Conceptual and Ethical Dimensions of Iatrogenic Illness by Virginia Ashby Sharpe on 5 pages
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- Nosocomial Pneumonia (Lung Biology in Health and Disease) by Jarvis on page 52, page 80, and page 201
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, AIME '95, Pavia, Italy, June 25 - 28, 1995. ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Pedro Barahona on page 170, and page 317
- Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit (Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care) by H.K.F. van Saene on page 15, and page 334
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