Bookeditor, William R. Jarvis, President, Jason and Jarvis Associates, LLC, Port Orford, Oregon, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, San Francisco, California.
Contents:
Section I General Considerations of Hospital Infections
1. Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections / Belinda Ostrowsky
2. The Healthcare Epidemiologist / Bryan P. Simmons
3. Hand Hygiene / Didier Pittet
4. Occupational Health Services / Elizabeth A. Bolyard
5. The Development of Infection Surveillance and Prevention Programs / Keith F. Woeltje
6. Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections / Robert P. Gaynes
7. The Use of Prevalence Surveys for Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance / Bruno P. Coignard
8. Investigating Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections / William R. Jarvis
9. Epidemiologic Methods for Investigating Infections in the Healthcare Setting / Ebbing Lautenbach
10. Use of Computerized Systems in Healthcare Epidemiology / Keith F. Woeltje
11. The Role of the Laboratory in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections / Daniel J. Diekema
12. The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals / August J. Valenti
13. The Role of Professional, Governmental, and Regulatory Organizations in Infection Prevention and Control / Tammy S. Lundstrom
14. Antimicrobial Stewardship: Programmatic Efforts to Optimize Antimicrobial Use / William R. Jarvis
15. Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Epidemiology and Control / Mary K. Hayden
16. Molecular Biology of Resistance: A Brief History of Resistance Mechanisms and the Discovery of Gene Transfer / Robert A. Bonomo
17. Economic Evaluation of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection-Control and Antimicrobial-Stewardship Interventions / Sara E. Cosgrove
18. Epidemiology and Control of Healthcare-Acquired Infections in Limited-Resource Settings / Victor D. Rosenthal
Section II Functional Areas of Concern
19. The Inanimate Environment / John M. Boyce
20. Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities / David J. Weber
21. Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities / Susan Springthorpe
22. Clinical Laboratory---Acquired Infections / L. Barth Reller
23. Dialysis-Associated Complications and Their Control / Priti R. Patel
24. The Intensive Care Unit, Part A: HAI Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Surveillance, Engineering and Administrative Infection Control Practices, and Impact / Stephan A. Harbarth
25. The Intensive Care Unit, Part B: Antibiotic Resistance and Prevention of CVC-BSIs, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, and C. difficile / Dennis G. Maki
26. The Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit / Nalini Singh
27. The Perioperative Suite / Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson
28. Ambulatory Care Settings / Kathleen H. Petersen
29. Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities / Chesley L. Richards Jr.
Section III Endemic and Epidemic Hospital Infections
30. Incidence and Nature of Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections / William R. Jarvis
31. Urinary Tract Infections / Carol E. Chenoweth
32. Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia / Henri Balaguera
33. Nosocomial Tuberculosis / Faiz Ahmad Khan
34. Infectious Gastroenteritis / Benjamin A. Lopman
35. Central Nervous System Infections / W. Michael Scheld
36. Surgical Site Infections / Keith S. Kaye
37. Infections of Burn Wounds / Basil A. Pruitt, Jr.
38. Infections due to Infusion Therapy / Leonard A. Mermel
39. Infections of Implantable Cardiac and Vascular Devices / Raymond Y. Chinn
40. Infections in Skeletal Prosthesis and Allografts / Daniel P. Lew
41. The Importance of Infection Control in Controlling Antimicrobial-Resistant Organisms / Barry M. Farr
42. Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Viral Infections / Janice Lo
43. Preventing Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens in the Healthcare Setting / David K. Henderson
44. Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections / Benjamin J. Park
45. Healthcare-Associated Infections in Transplant Recipients / Kent Sepkowitz
46. Miscellaneous Procedure-Related Infections / Robert A. Weinstein
47. Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates / Michael P. Stevens
48. Patient Safety / Moi Lin Ling.