Downloads
CDC guidelines
- Guideline for disinfection and sterilization in healthcare facilities, (2008)
- CDC Isolation guidelines, (2007) (.pdf) (1.39 MB)
- Public Reporting Guidance (.pdf) (85 KB)
- Injection practices for patient safety
- Guideline - Management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings (2006)
- Bloodstream infection: Draft Guideline for the prevention of intravascular catheter–related infections (2009)
- BSI Guidelines (2002) (.pdf) (333 KB)
- Dental health guidelines (2003) (.pdf) (777 KB)
- Environmental IC (2003) (.pdf) (1 MB)
- Hand hygiene (2002) (.pdf) (495 KB)
- Infection control (1998) (.pdf) (392 KB)
- Occupational exposures HIV - (2005) (.pdf) (266 KB)
- Occupational exposures HBV, HCV - (2001) (.pdf) (334 KB)
- Pneumonia (2003) (.pdf) (383 KB)
- Surgical site (1999) (.pdf) (258 KB)
- Tuberculosis (2005) (.pdf) (1.4 MB)
-
Urinary tract infection: CA-UTI
(2009)
Other guidelines, selected resources
- WHO Hand hygiene draft (.pdf) (3.3 MB)
- Construction APIC 2000 (.pdf) (157 KB)
- Multi-society guideline ASGE (2003) (.pdf) (104 KB)
- Guideline for endoscopy APIC (2000) (.pdf) (318 KB)
- Management of infected healthcare workers (2008) (.pdf) (141 KB)
- Medical waste (1992) (.pdf) (234 KB)
- Multidose vials (2003) (Word file) (177 KB)
- Needle injection (2003) (.pdf) (568 KB)
- Service animals (2000) (.pdf) (168 KB)
- Scrubs (1997) (.pdf) (98 KB)
CDC infection surveillance definitions,
reports and recommendations
- CDC-NHSN manual (2009)
- CDC-NHSN hospital definitions (2009)
- Draft definitions home care (2008) (.pdf) (51 KB)
- Long term care definitions (1991) (.pdf) (116 KB)
- Long term care infection control (2008) (.pdf) (330 KB)
- Surveillance practices (2007) (Word file) (173 KB)
- NHSN report (2009) (.pdf) (569 KB)
Surveillance and antimicrobials
- Direct medical costs of healthcare-associated infections (2009)
- Antimicrobial-Resistant pathogens associated with healthcare-associated infections (2008)
- SHEA-APIC position paper (2007) (.pdf) (119 KB)
- Healthcare-associated infections and mortality (2007)
- Antimicrobial resistance (1997) (.pdf) (215 KB)
- Antimicrobials and ICU patients (1999) (.pdf) (28 KB)
- Intensive care and antimicrobials (1999) (.pdf) (46 KB)
- HAI white paper (.pdf) (3 MB)
Infection control program consensus reports
- Infrastructure - hospitals (1998) (.pdf) (149 KB)
- Infrastructure - Out-of-hospital (1999) (.pdf) (168 KB)
Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (Am J Infect Control 2005;33:217-26.)