CHAPTER 1. Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections
CHAPTER 2. The Healthcare Epidemiologist
CHAPTER 4. Personnel Health Services
CHAPTER 5. The Development of Infection Surveillance and Control Programs
CHAPTER 6. Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections
CHAPTER 7. Investigating Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections
CHAPTER 8. Epidemiological Methods for Investigating Infections in the Healthcare Setting
CHAPTER 9. Use of Computerized Systems in Healthcare Epidemiology
CHAPTER 10. The Role of the Laboratory in Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections
CHAPTER 11. The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals
CHAPTER 12. The Role of Professional and Regulatory Organizations in Infection Control
CHAPTER 13. Antimicrobial Stewardship: Programmatic Efforts to Optimize Antimicrobial Use
CHAPTER 14. Multiply Drug-Resistant Pathogens: Epidemiology
CHAPTER 15. Molecular Biology of Resistance
CHAPTER 17. Legal Aspects of Healthcare-Associated Infections
CHAPTER 18. Infection Control: A Global View
CHAPTER 19. The Inanimate Environment
CHAPTER 20. Sterilization and Disinfection
CHAPTER 21. Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities
CHAPTER 22. Clinical Laboratory-Acquired Infections
CHAPTER 23. Dialysis-Associated Complications and Their Control
CHAPTER 25. The Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
CHAPTER 26. The Operating Room
CHAPTER 27. Ambulatory Care Settings
CHAPTER 28. Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities
CHAPTER 29. Incidence and Nature of Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections
CHAPTER 30. Urinary Tract Infections
CHAPTER 31. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
CHAPTER 33. Infectious Gastroenteritis
CHAPTER 34. Central Nervous System Infections
CHAPTER 35. Surgical Site Infections
CHAPTER 36. Infections of Burn Wounds
CHAPTER 37. Infections Due to Infusion Therapy
CHAPTER 38. Infections of Implantable Cardiac and Vascular Devices
CHAPTER 39. Infections in Skeletal Prostheses
CHAPTER 40. The Importance of Infection Control in Controlling Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens
CHAPTER 41. Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Viral Infections
CHAPTER 42. Blood Borne Pathogen Prevention
CHAPTER 43. Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections
CHAPTER 44. Infection in Transplant Recipients
CHAPTER 45. Miscellaneous Procedure-Related Infections
CHAPTER 46. Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates