 Infection Control
"Infection Control" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.
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D017053
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.780.200.450
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Infection Control" by people in Profiles.
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Rufo PA, Egberg MD. Health Care Maintenance in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Adolesc Med State Art Rev. 2016; 27(1):177-92.
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Kaiser AM, Hogen R, Bordeianou L, Alavi K, Wise PE, Sudan R. Clostridium Difficile Infection from a Surgical Perspective. J Gastrointest Surg. 2015 Jul; 19(7):1363-77.
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Fernandez PG, Loftus RW, Dodds TM, Koff MD, Reddy S, Heard SO, Beach ML, Yeager MP, Brown JR. Hand hygiene knowledge and perceptions among anesthesia providers. Anesth Analg. 2015 Apr; 120(4):837-43.
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Quinn MM, Henneberger PK. Cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces in health care: Toward an integrated framework for infection and occupational illness prevention. Am J Infect Control. 2015 May 1; 43(5):424-34.
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Sunkesula VC, Meranda D, Kundrapu S, Zabarsky TF, McKee M, Macinga DR, Donskey CJ. Comparison of hand hygiene monitoring using the 5 Moments for Hand Hygiene method versus a wash in-wash out method. Am J Infect Control. 2015 Jan; 43(1):16-9.
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Gandra S, Barysauskas CM, Mack DA, Barton B, Finberg R, Ellison RT. Impact of contact precautions on falls, pressure ulcers and transmission of MRSA and VRE in hospitalized patients. J Hosp Infect. 2014 Nov; 88(3):170-6.
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Haessler S. The Hawthorne effect in measurements of hand hygiene compliance: a definite problem, but also an opportunity. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014 Dec; 23(12):965-7.
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Moy RH, Gold B, Molleston JM, Schad V, Yanger K, Salzano MV, Yagi Y, Fitzgerald KA, Stanger BZ, Soldan SS, Cherry S. Antiviral autophagy restrictsRift Valley fever virus infection and is conserved from flies to mammals. Immunity. 2014 Jan 16; 40(1):51-65.
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Macnow T, O'Toole D, DeLaMora P, Murray M, Rivera K, Whittier S, Ross B, Jenkins S, Saiman L, Duchon J. Utility of surveillance cultures for antimicrobial resistant organisms in infants transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2013 Dec; 32(12):e443-50.
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Gandra S, Ellison RT. Modern trends in infection control practices in intensive care units. J Intensive Care Med. 2014 Nov-Dec; 29(6):311-26.
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