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• Title:Bennett & Brachman's hospital infections / editor, William R. Jarvis, President, Jason and Jarvis Associates, LLC, Port Orford, Oregon, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, San Francisco, California.
  
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• Variant Title:Bennett and Brachman's hospital infections
  Hospital infections
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Jarvis, William R. (William Robert), 1948- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2014]
  ©2014
  

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  • Call Number: WX167 .B4705 2014
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Nosocomial infections.
  Nosocomial infections--Prevention.
  
• Medical Subjects: Cross Infection--prevention & control.
  Cross Infection--etiology.
  
• Edition:Sixth edition.
  
• Description:xiv, 772 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:Bennett & Brachman's Hospital Infections has been an influential textbook on nosocomial infections for over 30 years. This book provides readers with the latest information in the field of healthcare epidemiology and hospital associated infections prevention and control.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781451175929 (hbk.)
  1451175922 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Section I General Considerations of Hospital Infections
  1. Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections / Belinda Ostrowsky
  2. Healthcare Epidemiologist / Bryan P. Simmons
  3. Hand Hygiene / Didier Pittet
  4. Occupational Health Services / Elizabeth A. Bolyard
  5. Development of Infection Surveillance and Prevention Programs / Keith F. Woeltje
  6. Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections / Robert P. Gaynes
  7. 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. Role of the Laboratory in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections / Daniel J. Diekema
  12. Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals / August J. Valenti
  13. 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. 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. Intensive Care Unit, Part A: HAI Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Surveillance, Engineering and Administrative Infection Control Practices, and Impact / Stephan A. Harbarth
  25. Intensive Care Unit, Part B: Antibiotic Resistance and Prevention of CVC-BSIs, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, and C. difficile / Dennis G. Maki
  26. Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit / Nalini Singh
  27. 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. 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.