Section I General Considerations of Hospital Infections 1 Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections Belinda Ostrowsky 2 The Healthcare Epidemiologist Virginia R. Roth and Bryan P. Simmons 3 Hand Hygiene Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi, and Andrew Stewardson 4 Occupational Health Services David T. Kuhar, Elise M. Beltrami, and Elizabeth A. Bolyard 5 The Development of Infection Surveillance and Prevention Programs Hilary M. Babcock and Keith F. Woeltje 6 Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections Mary Andrus and Teresa Horan 7 The Role of Prevalence Surveys for Detection of Healthcare-Associated Infections Bruno P.
Coignard 8 Investigating Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections William R. Jarvis 9 Epidemiologic Methods for Investigating Infections in the Healthcare Setting Jennifer H. Han and Ebbing Lautenbach 10 Use of Computerized Systems in Healthcare Epidemiology Keith F. Woeltje 11 The Role of the Laboratory in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections Michael A. Pfaller and Daniel J. Diekema 12 The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals August Valenti 13 The Role of Professional, Governmental, and Regulatory Organizations in Infection Prevention and Control Barbara M. Soule, Karen Hoffmann, and Tammy S. Lundstrom 14 Antimicrobial Stewardship: Programmatic Efforts to Optimize Antimicrobial Use Robert Owens 15 Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Epidemiology and Control Michael Y.
Lin, Robert A. Weinstein, and Mary K. Hayden 16 Molecular Biology of Resistance Gopi Patel and Robert A. Bonomo 17 Economic Evaluation of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection-Control and Antimicrobial-Stewardship Interventions Eli N. Perencevich and 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 The Inanimate Environment John Boyce 20 Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities William A. Rutala and David J.
Weber 21 Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities Syed A. Sattar and Susan Springthorpe 22 Clinical Laboratory---Acquired Infections Michael L. Wilson and L. Barth Reller 23 Dialysis-Associated Complications and Their Control Matthew Arduino and Priti Patel 24 The Intensive Care Unit, Part A. HAI Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Surveillance, Engineering and Administrative Infection Control Practices, and Impact Didier Pittet, Caroline Landelle, and Stephan J. Harbarth 25 The Intensive Care Unit, Part B. Antiobiotic Resistance and Prevention of CVC-BSIs, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, and C. difficile Nasia Safdar and Dennis G.
Maki 26 The Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Thomas J. Sandora and Nalini Singh 27 Perioperative Suite Joan Blanchard and Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson 28 Ambulatory Care Settings Candace Friedman and Kathy H. Petersen 29 Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities Nimalie D. Stone and Chesley L. Richards, Jr. Section III Endemic and Epidemic Hospital Infections 30 Incidence and Nature of Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections Lennox K. Archibald and William R. Jarvis 31 Urinary Tract Infections Carol E.
Chenoweth 32 Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Donald E. Craven, Philip E. Grgurich, Kathleen Steger Craven, and Henri Balaguera 33 Nosocomial Tuberculosis Dick Menzies and Faiz Ahmad Khan 34 Infectious Gastroenteritis L. Clifford McDonald and Benjamin A. Lopman 35 Central Nervous System Infections Jeffrey Tessier 36 Surgical Site Infections Teena Chopra, Deverick J. Anderson, and Keith S. Kaye 37 Infections of Burn Wounds David Mozingo and Basil A. Pruitt, Jr.
38 Infections Due to Infusion Therapy Dennis G. Maki and Leonard A. Mermel 39 Infections of Implantable Cardiac and Vascular Devices Raymond Y. Chinn 40 Infections in Skeletal Prostheses and Allografts Ilker Uçkay, Leonardo Pagani, Axel Gamulin, and Daniel Lew 41 The Importance of Infection Control in Controlling Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Cassandra D. Salgado and Barry M. Farr 42 Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Viral Infections Wing Hong Seto and Janice Lo 43 Preventing Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens in the Healthcare Setting David K. Henderson 44 Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections Rachel M. Smith, Scott K.
Fridkin, and Benjamin J. Park 45 Healthcare-Associated Infections in Transplant Recipients Mini Kambouj and Kent Sepkowitz 46 Miscellaneous Procedure-Related Infections Sharon Welbel and Robert H. Weinstein 47 Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates Michael Edmond and Michael P. Stevens 48 Patient Safety Moi-Lin Ling.