Scientific Guidelines
Scientific Guidelines
The following are a select set of guidelines that govern the practice of infection prevention and control in home care and hospice. Please note this is not a complete list of all applicable evidence-based guidelines.
- Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2011). Immunization of health-care personnel: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR, 60(RR‐7), 1‐45. www.cdc.gov › mmwr › pdf › rr › rr6007Immunization of Health-Care Personnel - CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recommendations for Infection Control for Candida auris. (December 21, 2018). https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/c-auris-infection-control.html#homehealth
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (March 15, 2017). Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings Recommendations of the HICPAC. www.cdc.gov › hicpac › pdf › core-practicesCore Infection Prevention and Control Practices for ... - CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (September 2016). Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. www.cdc.gov › hicpac › pdf › core-practicesCore Infection Prevention and Control Practices for ... - CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2012). National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. Guidance for Control of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). www.cdc.gov › hai › organisms › cre › cre-toolkitFacility Guidance for Control of Carbapenem-resistant ... - CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (December 30, 2005). Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings. MMWR. 54(RR-17), 1-141. www.cdc.gov › mmwr › preview › mmwrhtmlGuidelines for Preventing the Transmission of ... - CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (June 6, 2003). Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities. MMWR, 52(RR10), 1-42. www.cdc.gov › infectioncontrol › pdf › environmental-guidelines-PGuidelines for Environmental Infection Control in ... - CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2002). Guideline for hand hygiene in health-care settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. MMWR, 51(RR-16), 1-44. www.cdc.gov › mmwr › preview › mmwrhtmlGuideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings - CDC
- Dubberke, E., Gerding, D. (2011). Rationale for hand hygiene recommendations after caring for a patient with Clostridium difficile Infection. www.shea-online.org › images › patients › CDI-hand-hygiene-UpdateRationale for Hand Hygiene Recommendations after Caring ...
- Ellingson, K., Haas, J., Ailello, A., et al. (2014). Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 35(8), 937-960. doi: 10.1086/677145
- Gorski, L., Hadaway, L., Hagle, M., McGoldrick, M., Orr, M., Doellman, D. (2016). Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice. Journal of Infusion Nursing. 39(1S), S1-S159. http://ins.tizrapublisher.com/hai13r/
- Gould, C., Umscheid, C., Agarwal, R., et al., and the Healthcare Infections Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). (2009). Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections 2009. www.cdc.gov › infectioncontrol › guidelines › cautiCatheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) - CDC
- Lo, E., Nicolle, L., Coffin, S., et al. (2014). SHEA/IDSA Practice Recommendations. Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 25(5), 464-479. www.icpsne.org › SHEA 2014 Updated CAUTI Prevention Guidelines...Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract ...
- MacCannell, T., Umscheid, C., Agarwal, R., et al. and Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. (2011). Guideline for the prevention and control of norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in healthcare settings, 2011. www.cdc.gov › infectioncontrol › pdf › guidelines › norovirus-guidel...Guideline for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus ... - CDC
- McDonald, L.C., Gerding, D.N., Johnson, S., et al. (2018). Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). Clinical Infectious Diseases. 66(7), e1-e48. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy/149
- Mermel, L.A., Allon, M., Bouza, E., Craven, D.E., Flynn, P., O’Grady, N.P, Raad II, Rijnders, B.J.A., Sherertz, R.J., Warren, D.K. (April 1, 2010). Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter–related infection: 2009 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2009 Jul 1; 49(1):1–45. Erratum in: Clinical Infectious Diseases.; 50(3), 457; Clinical Infectious Diseases. 50(7), 1079. DOI: 10.1086/599376
- O’Grady, N., Alexander, M., Burns, L., et al. and Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. (2011). Update July 2017. 2011 Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. www.cdc.gov › hai › pdfs › bsi-guidelines-2011Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter ... - CDC
- Rutala, W.A., Weber, D., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) (2008). Update May 2019. Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities. www.cdc.gov › infectioncontrol › pdf › disinfection-guidelines-HGuideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in ... - CDC
- Siegel, J.D., Rhinehart, E., Jackson. M., Chiarello, L., and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. (2007). Update July 2019. Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings. https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/isolation/updates.html
- Siegel, J.D., Rhinehart, E., Jackson, M., Chiarello, L. (2006). Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in Healthcare Settings, 2006. https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/mdro/index.html
- The United States Pharmacopeial Convention. (USP) (2012). USP-NF General Chapter <797> Pharmaceutical Compounding – Sterile Preparations. Free Download USP GC <797>
- World Health Organization (WHO). (2012). Hand hygiene in outpatient and home-based care and long-term care facilities: A Guide to the Application of the WHO Multimodal Hand Hygiene Improvement Strategy and the “My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene” Approach. https://www.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/78060/1/9789241503372_eng.pdf?ua=1
- World Health Organization. (2009). WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care. WHO. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241597906_eng.pdf?ua=1