Toolkits
CDC Guidelines for Isolation Precautions
This guideline is designed for use by individuals who are charged with administering infection control programs in hospitals and other healthcare settings. The information also will be useful for other healthcare personnel, healthcare administrators, and anyone needing information about infection control measures to prevent transmission of infectious agents.
CDC Hand Hygiene Guidelines
Interactive on-line course on “Hand Hygiene and Other Standard Precautions to Prevent Healthcare Associated Infections. This course reviews key concepts of both hand hygiene and Standard Precautions including: What are Standard Precautions? Why is hand hygiene important? Why are Standard Precautions important? What are some other concerns surrounding Standard Precautions?
IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign: How-to-Guide for Improving Hand-Hygiene
The purpose of this How-to Guide is to help organizations reduce health-care-associated infections, including infections due to antibiotic-resistant organisms, by improving hand hygiene practices and use of gloves among health care workers.
IHI 5 Million Lives Campaign: MRSA Reduction How-to-Guide
A national initiative led by IHI, the 5 Million Lives Campaign aims to dramatically improve the quality of American health care by protecting patients from five million incidents of medical harm between December 2006 and December 2008. The How-to Guides associated with this Campaign are designed to share best practice knowledge on areas of focus for participating organizations. For more information and materials, go to www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/Campaign.
MRSA Change Package
Change package document summarizing MRSA best practices.
SHEA Guidelines for Antibiotic Stewardship
Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Guidelines for Developing an Institutional Program to Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship.
SHEA Guidelines for Preventing Antibiotic Resistance in Hospitals
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Disease Society of America Joint Committee on the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance: Guidelines for the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance on Hospitals.
WHO Hand Hygiene Guidelines
Hand hygiene, a very simple action, reduces infections and enhances patient safety across all settings, from advanced health-care systems in industrialized countries to local dispensaries in developing countries. In order to provide health-care workers, hospital administrators and health authorities with the best scientific evidence and recommendations to improve practices and reduce health care-associated infections, WHO has developed Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care (Advanced
Draft).
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