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Infection Control for Physicians


	Name	Infection Control for Physicians
	Authors	Stephen Klotz, MD
	Length	2 CME credits
	Funding	Medical Directions, Inc.
	Released	January 27, 2010
	Updated	January 27, 2012
	Publications	None
	CME Sponsor	University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center
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Description
Infection Control for Physicians addresses infection control, patient safety, and risk management. It includes evidence-based risk management practices and guidelines for controlling the spread of infectious diseases. It offers physicians a chance to improve their knowledge and practice their skills for dealing with blood borne infection, drug resistant organisms, and outpatient respiratory illness.

Experience
Healthcare delivery is moving from acute care hospitals to home care, ambulatory centers, long-term care facilities, and doctor's offices. Thus, practicing physicians are seeing complex medical problems in a wider range of settings. Concurrently, new community acquired pathogens, such as SARS and 2009 Influenza A H1N1 - along with treatment resistant blood borne infections and evolving pathogens, such as S aureus, M tuberculosis, and C difficile - are not readily responsive to medical therapy, which increases the need for effective prevention. There is convincing evidence that standard precautions prevent transmission of infectious agents in healthcare settings, but there is also evidence that these precautions are not consistently used. Infection Control for Physicians has been designed to comply with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines on isolation precautions (Siegel et al., 2007), HIV testing (Branson, 2006), management of occupational exposures (CDC, 2001), sharps injury, universal precautions (DHQP, 1996), environmental infection control (Sehulster, 2004), and management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings (Siegel, 2006). It also meets specific educational requirements established by the NY State Department of Health (NYSDOH) and the State Council on Graduate medical Education (COGME).

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