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Open-access world wide web resources on control of nosocomial infections |
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Web site address |
Title of web page presenting information |
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| National Library of Medicine (USA) |
http://www.nlm.nih.gov webcite |
MedlinePlus: Infection control |
| Faculty of Medicine: University Catholic of Louvain (Belgium) |
http://www.uclouvain.be/md.html webcite |
Infection control |
| Infection control today magazine (USA) |
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com webcite |
Infection control programs |
| Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (USA) |
http://www.apic.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home webcite |
Infectious disease centre. Practice guidance |
| Infection Control Nurses Association (UK) |
http://www.icna.co.uk/ webcite |
Public downloads |
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center (USA) |
http://www.med.yale.edu webcite |
Yale-New Haven hospital infection control manual |
| Australian Government. |
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| Department of Health and Ageing (Australia) |
http://www.health.gov.au webcite |
Infection control guidelines. Navigation page |
| National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK) |
http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=home webcite |
Infection control |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) |
http://www.cdc.gov webcite |
Infection control in health care settings |
| National Health Service (NHS) plus – Health at work (UK) |
http://www.nhsplus.nhs.uk/default.asp webcite |
NHS stuff. Infection control |
| Royal College of nursing (UK) |
http://www.rcn.org.uk webcite |
Good practice in infection prevention and control |
| American Dental Association (USA) |
http://www.ada.org/index.asp webcite |
Oral health topics. Infection control |
| World Health Organization |
http://www.who.int/en/ webcite |
Hospital hygiene and infection control |
| Public Health Agency of Canada (Canada) |
http://www.phac-asp.gc.ca/new_e.html webcite |
Guidelines on infection control |
| NSW Health (Australia) |
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/ webcite |
Infection control policy |
| Infection Control Department (USA) |
http://infectioncontrol.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/ webcite |
Infection control policy. Standard and transmission based precautions |
| Victorian Government Health information (Australia) |
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ webcite |
Guidelines and regulations |
| Health protection agency (UK) |
http://www.hpa.org.uk webcite |
Centre for infections |
| St. Joseph's Health Care, London (UK) |
http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca webcite |
Infection prevention and control |
| UK National Audit Office (UK) |
http://www.nao.org.uk webcite |
The management and control of hospital acquired infection in acute NHS trusts in England |
| Queensland Health (Australia) |
http://www.health.qld.gov.au webcite |
Infection control |
| College of Nurses of Ontario (Canada) |
http://www.cno.org webcite |
Infection prevention and control |
| Scottish Government, Scottish Executive (Scotland) |
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Home webcite |
Infection control standards for adult care homes |
| HIV Dent (USA) |
http://www.hivdent.org webcite |
Infection control and postexposure protocols |
| National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland) |
http://www.nuigalway.ie webcite |
Infection control |
| Infection control services, University College, London hospitals (UK) |
http://www.infectioncontrolservices.co.uk/Default.htm webcite |
Infection control philosophy |
| Gastroenterological Society of Australia (Australia) |
http://www.gesa.org.au/index.htm webcite |
Infection control in endoscopy |
| Health protection Scotland |
http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/index.aspx webcite |
Strengthening and co-ordinating health protection in Scotland |
| Imperial College of London (UK) |
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ webcite |
Control of infection: how to avoid damaging yourself and your patient |
| Harborview Medical Centre (HMC; USA) |
http://www.uwmedicine.org/Facilities/Harborview/ webcite |
HMC epidemiology/infection control |
| Infection control nurses of Connecticut (USA) |
http://www.infectioncontrolct.org/ webcite |
Infection control nurses of Connecticut |
| King County Government, Seattle, Washington (USA) |
http://www.metrokc.gov/ webcite |
Communicable diseases, epidemiology and immunization |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) |
http://www.unc.edu webcite |
Resources on the internet on infection control |
| Infection Control Resource (USA) |
http://www.infectioncontrolresource.org/ webcite |
Infection control resource |
| William Fleming high school, VA (USA) |
http://www.roanoke.k12.va.us/schools/Fleming/lawson/jgpage/weblesn.htm webcite |
Principles of infection control |
| Oregon Government (USA) |
http://www.oregon.gov/ webcite |
Acute and communicable disease prevention |
| Community and Hospital Infection Control Association (Canada) |
http://www.chica.org/ webcite |
Links and resources |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) |
http://www.cdc.gov webcite |
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) |
| New York State (USA) |
http://www.ny.gov/ webcite |
Infection control |
| The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource (USA) |
http://www.thebody.com/index.html webcite |
Infection control in the correctional setting |
| University of Virginia Health System (USA) |
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/ webcite |
Infection control manual |
| Vanderbilt Medical Center (USA) |
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ webcite |
Department of Infection Control and Prevention |
| British Columbian Centre for Disease Control (Canada) |
http://bccdc.org/divisionphp?item=11 webcite |
Infection control guidelines |
| Florida Department of Health (USA) |
http://www.doh.state.fl.us webcite |
Florida's health |
| Institute of algorithmic medicine (USA) |
http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx webcite |
The medical algorithms project. Infection control |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China) |
http://aic.cuhk.edu.hk/ webcite |
Infection control |
| European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Europe) |
http://www.cobatrice.org webcite |
Patient safety and health systems management. Infection control |
| Johns Hopkins Medicine (USA) |
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/index.html webcite |
Hospital epidemiology and infection control |
| Medical-Journals.com (UK) |
http://www.medical-journals.com/ webcite |
Infection control – a problem for patient safety |
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| http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infectioncontrol.html webcite |
Provides infection control guidelines |
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| http://www.md.ucl.ac.be/didac/hosp/infco.htm webcite |
A database of many articles with abstracts, published since 1 January 1994 |
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| http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/category.asp/sectionID/403 webcite |
Provides articles concerning infection control |
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| http:/ / www.apic.org/ AM/ Template.cfm?Section=Guidelines&Tem plate=/ TaggedPage/ TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=6&Conte ntID=519 webcite |
Provides infection control guidelines. |
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| http://www.icna.co.uk/publicdownloads/index.Asp webcite |
Mainly for members of the association |
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| http://www.med.yale.edu/ynhh/infection/ webcite |
Good collection of preventive measures for infection control |
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| http:/ / www.health.gov.au/ internet/ wcms/ Publishing.nsf/ content/ icg-guidelines-index.htm webcite |
Infection control guidelines for the prevention of transmission of infectious diseases
in the health care setting |
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| http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=CG002 webcite |
Provides a set of measures to avoid infection that should be followed by anyone giving
or receiving care at home or at a health centre |
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| http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/index.html webcite |
Guidelines for keeping patients and health care workers in health care settings protected
from infectious diseases |
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| http://www.nhsplus.nhs.uk/nhsstaff/infection.asp webcite |
Limited information |
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| http:/ / www.rcn.org.uk/ resources/ mrsa/ healthcarestaff/ infectioncontrol/ index.php webcite |
Guidance for nursing stuff. Information on infection control and prevention |
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| http://www.ada.org/public/topics/infection_control_faq.asp#3 webcite |
Brief answers on dental health |
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| http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/medicalwaste/148to158.pdf webcite |
Information on epidemiology and prevention of hospital infections |
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| http://www.phac-asp.gc.ca/dpg e html#infection webcite |
Contains guidelines on infection control |
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| http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/PD/2005/pdf/PD2005_247.pdf webcite |
Policy directive of the Australian Department of Health. Contains guidelines on hospital
infection control |
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| http:/ / infectioncontrol.ucsfmedicalcenter. org/ STD__Trans_Precautions_final.pdf webcite |
Contains guidelines on hospital infection control |
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| http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/regulations/index.htm webcite |
Infectious disease regulation and guidelines |
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| http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/default.htm webcite |
Carries out a broad spectrum of work related to prevention of infectious diseases |
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| http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca/infectioncontrol/ webcite |
Contains information on infection control |
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| http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/9900230.pdf webcite |
General information on infection control and costs of hospital acquired infections |
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| http://www.health.qld.gov.au/infectioncontrol/guidelines.html webcite |
Queensland government infection control guidelines |
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| http://www.cno.org/docs/prac/41002_infection.pdf webcite |
Guidelines for nurses |
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| http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/03/19927/42764#11 webcite |
Provides infection control standards for adult care homes |
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| http://www.hivdent.org/infctl/office.htm webcite |
Dental office issues |
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| http://www.nuigalway.ie/bac/control_of_infection.htm webcite |
General information on infection control |
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| http://www.infectioncontrolservices.co.uk/intro1.htm webcite |
Contains information on infection control |
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| http://www.gesa.org.au/members_guidelines/endoscopy_inf/ webcite |
Practice guidelines for endoscopic procedures |
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| http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/scieh.asp webcite |
Contains infection control procedures |
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| http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/OCCHEALTH/formedicalstudents/controlofinfection/ webcite |
Basic principles of infection control |
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| http://depts.washington.edu/ictrain/icmanual/ webcite |
Infection control manual |
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| http://www.infectioncontrolct.org/ webcite |
Contains useful information and helpful links on infection control |
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| http://www.metrokc.gov/health/providers/epidemiology/index.htm webcite |
Information for health care providers |
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| http://www.unc.edu/depts/spice/resource.html webcite |
Contains many links |
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| http://www.infectioncontrolresource.org/ webcite |
Contains articles on prevention strategies for infection control practitioners and
professional nurses |
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| http://www.roanoke.k12.va.us/schools/Fleming/lawson/jgpage/infect.htm webcite |
An internet lesson to introduce health occupation students to infection control and
prevention |
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| http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/acd/lhd/infectcontrol.shtml#genl webcite |
General disease control and antimicrobial resistance |
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| http://www.chica.org/links_overview.html webcite |
Information on hand hygiene, bioterrorism and disasters. Needs subscription for further
information |
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| http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/ic-closecontacts.htm webcite |
Only for SARS. Limited information |
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| http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/infection/infecontrol.htm webcite |
Guidelines on infection control |
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| http://www.thebody.com/hepp/julaug04/infection_control.html?m59t webcite |
Information on HIV prevention |
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| http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/infection-control/ webcite |
Contains infection control procedures |
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| http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=infectioncontrol&doc=4616 webcite |
Isolation guidelines, infection control policies |
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| http://www.bccdc.org/content.php?item=194 webcite |
Contains infection control guidelines and many links. |
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| http:/ / www.doh.state.fl.us/ Disease ctrl/ epi/ icg/ icg.pdf#search=%22%22infection%20co ntrol%22%20icu%20guidelines%22 webcite |
Main focus is on pandemic influenza and avian flu |
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| http://www.medal.org/visitor/www/inactive/ch26.aspx webcite |
Information on control of the majority of nosocomial infections. Requires registration |
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| http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/SARS%20infection%20control.htm webcite |
Focus on SARS |
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| http:/ / 212.149.150.161:8080/ coba/ results.jsp?sea=1&id=4&subid=11&li= 0&subsubid=11.2 webcite |
Contains practice guidelines on prevention of nosocomial infections |
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| http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic webcite |
Information on infectious diseases and their prevention |
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| http://www.medical-journals.com/r037.htm webcite |
An article on nosocomial infections |
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