Infectious Diseases

The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) guidelines for treatment of infectious diseases include explicit recommendations for antibiotic stewardship relevant to the infections addressed in the guidelines.

The following tools are designed to help healthcare providers to implement Standard and Transmission-Based Precautions to prevent infections.

The WHO global report on infection prevention and control (IPC) provides a global situation analysis of how IPC programmes are being implemented in countries around the world, according to evidence from the scientific literature and various reports, and new data from WHO studies.

NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.

Resources from The Joint Commission enterprise, as well as external evidence-based sources.

Standard Precautions are used for all patient care. They’re based on a risk assessment and make use of common sense practices and personal protective equipment use that protect healthcare providers from infection and prevent the spread of infection from patient to patient.

Transmission-Based Precautions are the second tier of basic infection control and are to be used in addition to Standard Precautions for patients who may be infected or colonized with certain infectious agents for which additional precautions are needed to prevent infection transmission.