Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antibiotic Resistance

Evidence-Based Guidelines

General Guidelines

Title	Author	Published
Preventing Healthcare-associated Infections	Council of State and Territorial Epidmiologists (CSTE) Workshop	2009
Guidelines for Disinfection, and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2008
Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2007
Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Healthcare Facilities	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2003
Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings	HICPAC and HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force	2002

Device-associated Infection Prevention Guidelines

Title	Author	Published
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2011
Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2009
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related infections	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2002

Procedure-associated Infection Prevention Guidelines

Title	Author	Published
Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	1999
Guideline for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2003

Organism-specific Guidelines

Title	Author	Published
Guideline for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Healthcare Settings	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2011
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children	Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)	2011
Guide to the Elimination of Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumanii Transmission in Healthcare Settings	Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)	2010
Guideline for Management of Healthcare Workers who are infected with Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitits C virus and/or Human Immunodeficiency Virus	Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA)	2010
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010	Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) and Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)	2010
Guidance for Control of Infections with Carbapenem-Resistant or Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Acute Care Facilities	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)	2009
Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Healthcare Settings	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2006
Guideline for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2003
Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Antibiotic-Resistance Organisms	Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS)	1999
Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin Resistance	Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	1995
C. Difficile Toolkit	HAI Advisory Committee/Multiple Sources	2011

Guidelines for Specific Healthcare Settings

Long Term Care Settings

Title	Author	Published
Infection Prevention and Control in the Long-term Care Facility	Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) and Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)	2008
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation of Fever and Infection in Older Adult residents of Long-Term Care Facilities	Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)	2008
Development of Minimum Criteria for the Initiation of Antibiotics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Results of a Consensus Conference	Loeb et al	2001
Antimicrobial Use in Long-Term Care Facilities	Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) Longterm care Committee	2000
Definitions of Infection for Surveillance in Long-term Care Facilities	McGeer A et al	1991

Dialysis Settings

Title	Author	Published
Infection control requirements for dialysis facilities and clarification regarding guidance on parenteral medication vials	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)	2008
Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)	2001

Outpatient (ambulatory care) Settings

Title	Author	Published
Infection prevention checklist for outpatient settings	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2011
Guide to Infection Prevention in Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)	2011

Dental Settings

Title	Author	Published
Guidelines for infection control in dental healthcare settings	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)	2003

Other Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines

• Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
  Includes prevention strategies for surgical site infection (SSI), central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), Clostridium difficile (CDI), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
• SHEA Guidelines and Position Papers
  Includes guidelines and position papers on a variety of HAI control and prevention strategies.
• Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) Publications
  Includes guidelines for general infection prevention and control, device-associated infection prevention (CAUTI, CLABSI), procedure-associated infection prevention (SSI, VAP), prevention and control of drug-resistant organisms, and prevention strategies for healthcare personnel.
• Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Practice Guidelines
  Includes infection prevention and control guidelines and standards developed or endorsed by IDSA.