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The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
SHEA was founded in 1980 to advance the application of the science of healthcare epidemiology. SHEA works to maintain the utmost quality of patient care and healthcare worker safety in all healthcare settings. It upholds its high success rate in infection prevention and control, while applying epidemiologic principles and prevention strategies to a wide range of quality-of-care issues.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control & Epidemiology, Inc. (APIC)
APIC's mission is to improve health and patient safety by reducing risks of infection and other adverse outcomes. The Association's more than 12,000 members have primary responsibility for infection prevention, control and hospital epidemiology in healthcare settings around the globe. APIC's members include nurses, epidemiologists, physicians, quality and patient safety professionals, healthcare executives, microbiologists, clinical pathologists, laboratory technologists, and public health practitioners. APIC advances its mission through education, research, consultation, collaboration, public policy, practice guidance and credentialing.
APIC Elimination and Implementation Guides
Provide practical, evidence-based best practices for the elimination of specific infections including: MRSA Transmission in Hospital Settings and the California Supplement, MRSA in Long Term Care Settings, Orthopedic Surgical Site Infections, Acinetobacter baumannii, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs), Clostridium difficile, Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection (CRBSI), Hemodialysis, Mediastinitis, and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.
APIC "I Believe in Zero CLABSIs"
A comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource to discuss and answer questions about CLABSIs while providing resources and answers.
The Healthcare Infection Control Practice Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
HICPAC is a federal advisory committee made up of 14 external infection control experts who provide advice and guidance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the practice of healthcare infection control, strategies for surveillance and prevention, and control of healthcare-associated infections in United States healthcare facilities.
CDC HAI Prevention Collaborative Toolkits
The CDC has provided toolkits for HAI prevention collaboratives including central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), surgical site infection (SSI), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Toolkits include baseline assessment tools and suggested prevention strategies and outcome measures. Additional resources include environmental cleaning evaluation materials, as well as materials for including long term care facilities in collaboratives.
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA)
Provides answers to frequently asked practitioner questions, treatment guidelines and stewardship, hygiene, infection control, and additional resources.
OSHA Healthcare Advisor Downloads
Patient safety and infection control tools, assessments, checklists, worksheets, and other valuable resources.
NEW!Antimicrobial Resistance Learning Site for Veterinary Students
Teaching modules designed for integration into existing veterinary school courses. It may also be of interest to researchers, microbiologists, epidemiologists and animal scientists.
National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS)
Active from 1970-2004, the NNIS system was developed to monitor the incidence of healthcare-associated (nosocomial) infections (HAIs) and their associated risk factors and pathogens. NNIS was the only national system for tracking HAIs. The NNIS system had a cooperative, non-financial relationship between hospitals and CDC.
Active since 2005, NHSN is a voluntary, secure, internet-based surveillance system that integrates and expands legacy patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at CDC.
The purpose of this document is to provide a framework for the development of epidemiologic-based surveillance systems for use in health care settings, and it is not intended as an independent educational or training document. The following recommendations are based on a synthesis of current experience and knowledge of surveillance. As the principles and ideas regarding surveillance continue to evolve, so may this document, which is available from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Inc. Surveillance Initiative Working Group, in AJIC, Volume 35, Issue 7, Pages 427-440.
Use this resource page to expand your knowledge and leverage your surveillance technology to benefit your practice and your profession. Find helpful tools, read current literature, stay informed of opportunities, and learn from the developers, early adopters, and successful users who drive development.
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products that bring together the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level healthcare data.
Excellence in Curriculum Innovation through Teaching Epidemiology and the Science of Public Health (EXCITE!) is a collection of teaching and reference materials developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to introduce and excite youth from kindergarten through 12th grade about the knowledge and skills utilized by public health professionals. The information presented in EXCITE! includes such academic subjects as life sciences, epidemiology, mathematics, social studies, language arts, and health education. Topics applicable to all levels of instruction include elementary statistical concepts, scientific method of inquiry, and outbreak investigation.
These case studies are interactive exercises developed to teach epidemiologic principles and practices. They are based on real-life outbreaks and public health problems, and were developed in collaboration with the original investigators and experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The case studies require students to apply their epidemiologic knowledge and skills to problems confronted by public health practitioners at the local, state, and national level every day.
The CDC's National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) Outbreak Management Program (OMP) focuses on the informatics and technology needs of public health workers throughout all phases of response to a disease outbreak. Information needs highlighted by public health events in recent years and anticipated for future events demonstrate that information systems are critical for outbreak investigation, management, delivery of appropriate interventions, and analysis of response.
National Voluntary Consensus Standards for the Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Data- The report contains seven National Quality Forum (NQF)-endorsed® national voluntary consensus standards for reporting healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data, including a framework for measurement and public reporting. The report also discusses 13 HAI reporting measures previously endorsed by NQF, and eight recommendations for measuring development and research. Published March 2008.
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