• Long-Term Care Facilities and Nursing Homes
  • Revisions to Appendix PP - Interpretive Guidelines for Long-Term Care Facilities, Tag F441
  • Healthcare-Associated Infections: Reporting Requirements for Nursing Homes
    
    
• Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association's MRSA Campaign
  • Preventing MRSA: It’s In Our Hands-Facts about MRSA
  • Preventing MRSA: It’s In Our Hands-Message Points
  • Preventing MRSA: It’s In Our Hands-Frequently Asked Questions
  • Preventing MRSA: It’s In Our Hands-Frequently Asked Questions for Healthcare Employees & Patient Caregivers
  • Preventing MRSA: It’s In Our Hands-The Consumer’s Guide to Understanding & Preventing MRSA
  • Preventing MRSA: It’s In Our Hands-The Patient’s Guide to Understanding & Preventing MRSA
    
    
• Table of Contents for Infection Prevention and Control Advisory Committee References
  
  
• HAI ELC Map of Grantees by Activity
  
  
• CDC’s Role in Preventing Healthcare Associated Infections
  
  
• Communicating Hospital Infection Data
  
  
• HHS Action Plan
  
  
• Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Compendium PDFs
  
  
• 2009 Legislation Summary Table
  
  
• ABX Resistant Organism Manual - ADHS
  
  
• CMS Infection Control for LTC
  
  
• Important Websites for Legislation of Healthcare Associated Infection Reporting
  
  
• Infection Prevention and Control in the Long-Term Care Facility
  
  
• The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Manual Patient Safety Component
  
  
• Admin Data Zhan and Miller
  
  
• AJIC Admin Coding
  
  
• Comparison of State HAI Reporting Laws 2008
  
  
• 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information
  
  
• Urinary Tract Infection
  
  
• State Quality and Patient Safety Transparency Activities
  
  
• 'Superbugs' That Strike the Sickest Patients
  

Table of Contents for Infection Prevention and Control Advisory Committee References

1. Senate Bill 1356
   
   
2. Important Websites for Legislation of Healthcare Associated Infection Reporting
   
   
3. Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
   
   
4. National Voluntary Consensus Standards for the Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Data
   
   
5. CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting
   
   
6. APIC position on mandatory public reporting of healthcare associated infections
   
   
7. Consumer's Union Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (S. 720 and HR 663)
   
   
8. CMS: The QIO 9th Scope of Work
   
   
9. GAO Health-care-Associated Inefections In Hospitals Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections
   
   
10. Systematic review of economic analyses of health care-associated infections
    
    
11. Economics and Preventing Hospital-acquired Infection
    
    
12. Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance: Moving Beyond Description to Prevention
    
    
13. Closing the Quality Gap:A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies Volume 6—Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
    
    
14. An International Update on the Comparitive Performance of American Health Care (pertinent information on Safe Care, page 9)
    
    
15. Legislative Mandates for Use of Active Surveillance Cultures to Screen for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Position Statement From the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force
    
    
16. Getting to Zero! - VA Pittsburgh Heathcare System MRSA Prevention Initiative
    

Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Compendium PDFs

• Sponsorship Acknowledgement
  
  
• Primum Non Nocere
  
  
• Improving Patient Safety Through Infection Control: A New Healthcare Imperative
  
  
• Executive Summary
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Acute Care Hospitals
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Acute Care Hospitals
  
  
• Strategies to Prevent Clostridium difficile Infections in Acute Care Hospitals