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Public Health

Infection Control: 2019 Update

The most effective ways to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAI).
CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Course Authors

Keith F. Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Woeltje is Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

Updated by E. Chandler Church, M.D., M.Sc. and Keith B. Armitage, M.D.

Dr. Church is a Resident, Department of Medicine, and Dr. Armitage is Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Within the past 12 months, Drs. Church and Armitage have nothing to disclose relevant to this activity.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, CCME staff and interMDnet staff have nothing to disclose relevant to this activity.

Release Date: 03/05/2019

 
Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Cyberounds®, you should be able to:

  • Describe how surveillance for healthcare-associated infections (HAI) is conducted and how HAI rates are reported;

  • Describe three types of isolation precautions and a common indication for each;

  • Discuss three interventions for the prevention of device-associated HAI.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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