Hospital Infections

Part 1 General considerations of hospital infections: epidemiology of nosocomial infections, Philip S. Brachman; the hospital epidemiologist, Bryan P. Simmons; personnel health services, Ofelia C. Tablan et al; the development of infection surveillance and control programs, Robert H. Haley; surveillance of nosocomial infections, Robert P. Gaynes; investigation of endemic and epidemic nosocomial infections, William R. Jarvis; statistical considerations for analysis of nosocomial infection data, Stanley M. Martin et al; the use of computerized systems in hospital epidemiology, Jonathan Freeman; the role of the laboratory in control of nosocomial infection, John E. McGowan Jr., Robert A. Weinstein; the practice of epidemiology in community hospitals, N. Joel Ehrenkranz; the role of professional and regulatory organizations in infection control programs, William Scheckler; the relationship between the hospital and the community, Michael D. Decker, William Schaffner; universal precautions and isolation systems, Jeffrey W. Weinstein et al; antibiotics and nosocomial infections, Theodore C. Eickoff; multiply drug-resistant pathogens - epidemiology and control, Robert A. Weinstein, Mary K. Hayden; molecular biology of resistance, Fred C. Tenover, Dennis R. Schaberg; cost-benefit analysis of infection control programs, Robert W. Haley; legal aspects of hospital infections, G. Scott Baity et al; infection control in developing countries, Samuel Ponce de Leon Rosales, M. Sigfrido Range-Frausto. Part 2 Functional areas of concern: the inanimate environment, Frank S. Rhame; central services, linens and laundry, Gina Pugliese, Cynthia A. Hubbard; foodborne disease prevention in health care facilities, Laurence Slutsker et al; clinical laboratory-acquired infections, Michael L. Wilson, L. Barth Reller; dialysis-associated infections and their control, Martin S. Favero et al; the intensive care unit, Didier Pittet, Stephanie Harbarth; the newborn nursery, Jane Siegel; the operating room, Ronald Lee Nichols; ambulatory care settings, Marguerite M. Jackson, Patricia Lynch; infections in long-term care facilities, Brenda A. Nurse, Richard A. Garibaldi. Part 3 Endemic and epidemic hospital infections: incidence and nature of endemic and epidemic nosocomial infections, William J. Martone et al; urinary tract infections, Walter E. Stamm. (Part contents).