| Title | Infection Control: Prevention of Healthcare associated infection in primary and community care |
| Author(s) | National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) - Pellow CM; Pratt RJ; Harper P; Loveday HP; Robinson N; Jones S; MacRae ED and the Guideline Development Group |
| Abstract | The report provides guidance on infection prevention and control precautions that should be applied by healthcare staff while caring for all patients in the hospital environment. The recommendations are divided into four interventions: -
· Intervention 1: Standard principles for hospital environmental hygiene
· Intervention 2: Standard principles for hand hygiene
· Intervention 3: Standard principles for the use of personal protective equipment
· Intervention 4: Standard principles for the safe use and disposal of sharps
The recommendations are not detailed practice protocols and therefore should be incorporated into local infection control policies/guidelines.
This guidance has been published in the Journal of Hospital Infection, the British Journal of Infection Control and on the NICE website (http://www.nice.org.uk/) and EPIC (http://www.epic.tvu.ac.uk/)
Individual sections can also be downloaded from the Richard Wells
Research Centre website www.richardwellsresearch.com |
| Date of publishing | 06/25/2003 |
| Date of last review by us | 07/11/2013 |
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