title: Infection Control in Alternative Health Care Settings: An Update.
abstract: With changing health care delivery, patients receive care at various settings including acute care hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient primary care and specialty clinics, and at home, exposing them to pathogens in various settings. Various health care settings face unique challenges, requiring individualized infection control programs. Infection control programs in nursing homes should address surveillance for infections and antimicrobial resistance, outbreak investigation and control plan for epidemics, isolation precautions, hand hygiene, staff education, and employee and resident health programs.
authors: Quality and Patient Safety, Detroit Medical Center Healthcare System, 399 John R Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
authors: Elaine
authors: E
authors: Flanagan
authors: Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Cassone
authors: Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors: Ana
authors: A
authors: Montoya
authors: Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, 2215 Fuller Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA. Electronic address: lonamody@umich.edu.
authors: Lona
authors: L
authors: Mody
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D063373:Hand Hygiene; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D009735:Nursing Homes
keywords: Hand hygiene; Health care delivery; Infection control; Nursing homes