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Prevention and Control Guidelines

Topics

• General
• Environmental
• Disease Specific

Reporting Requirements

• Reporting Requirements

Contact Information

• Contact Information

General

• Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings, 2002 (CDC)
• Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998 (CDC)
• Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007 (CDC)
• Infection Control in Long-Term Care Facilities (CDC)
• Protecting Patients (CDC)
• Protecting Patients from Bloodborne Pathogens in Healthcare Settings (CDC)
• Protecting Healthcare Workers (CDC)
• Healthcare Worker Occupational Health Guidelines (CDC)
• Protecting Healthcare Workers from Bloodborne Pathogens (CDC)
• Immunization of Healthcare Workers (CDC)
• Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis (CDC) 2001
• Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program (ESAP): Overview of the Law and Regulations

Environmental

• Ventilation, Construction, and Renovation of Hospitals (CDC)
• Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) (PDF, 1.4MKB, 249pg) (CDC)

Disease Specific

Acinetobacter (NYSDOH)

• Infection Control Guidelines for New York State - Nosocomial Acinetobacter Infection, 1999 (NYSDOH)

Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections

• Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections, 2002 (CDC)

Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections

• Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections, 1981 (CDC)

Gasteroenteritis (NYSDOH)

• Investigation and Control of Nosocomial Gastroenteritis Outbreaks, 2006 (NYSDOH) (PDF, 44KB, 3pg.)

Influenza

• Influenza Prevention and Control Guidelines (NYSDOH)
• Long-term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act (NYSDOH)
• Influenza (flu) Update on the Public Website (NYSDOH)

Legionellosis

• Hospital-associated Legionellosis (Legionnaires' Disease), 2005 (NYSDOH) (PDF, 294KB, 16 pg.)
• Fact Sheet (NYSDOH)

Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia

• Guidelines for Preventing Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (CDC) (PDF, 811KB, 179pg.)
• Guideline for Preventing Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2004 (CDC)
• Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) (CDC) (PDF, 1.49MB, 249pg)

Multidrug-Resistant Organisms

• Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings, 2006 (CDC)

Pneumonia

• Guidelines for Preventing Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (CDC)
• Guideline for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia, 2004 (CDC)

Scabies

• Control of Scabies in Healthcare Facilities, 1996 (NYSDOH)
• Nosocomial Scabies Advisory, 2005 (NYSDOH) (PDF, 45KB, 3pg.)
• Fact Sheet (NYSDOH)

Surgical Site Infections

• Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999 (CDC)

Tuberculosis

• Guidelines for Tuberculosis Control in Long-Term Care Facilities, 2006 (NYSDOH) (PDF, 103KB, 4pg)
• TB Guidelines and Recommendations (CDC)

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE)

• Supplemental Infection Control Guidelines for the Care of Patients Colonized or Infected with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in Hospitals, Long-Term Care Facilities and Home Health Care (NYSDOH)
• Fact Sheet (NYSDOH)
• Fact Sheet (CDC)

Vancomycin-Intermidate and Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA/VRSA)

• Fact Sheet (CDC)