Abstract
In 1997 the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and
the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America established a consensus panel to
develop recommendations for optimal infrastructure and essential activities of infection
control and epidemiology programs in out-of-hospital settings. The following report
represents the Consensus Panel’s best assessment of requirements for a healthy and
effective out-of-hospital–based infection control and epidemiology program. The recommendations
fall into 5 categories: managing critical data and information; developing and recommending
policies and procedures; intervening directly to prevent infections; educating and
training of health care workers, patients, and nonmedical caregivers; and resources.
The Consensus Panel used an evidence-based approach and categorized recommendations
according to modifications of the scheme developed by the Clinical Affairs Committee
of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
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Footnotes
☆From the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Consensus Panel. Candace Friedman, MPH, CIC, Panel Chair (APIC); Marcie Barnette, MSN, RN, National Association for Home Care (NAHC); Alfred S. Buck, MD, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO); Rosemary Ham, RN, MSN, CIC (APIC); Jo-Ann Harris, MD, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS); Peggy Hoffman, RN (NAHC); Debra Johnson, RN, CIC (APIC); Farrin Manian, MD (SHEA); Lindsay Nicolle, MD (SHEA); Michele L. Pearson, MD (SHEA); Trish M. Perl, MD, MSc (SHEA); Steven L. Solomon, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
☆☆This report and the recommendations in it were formally approved by the APIC and SHEA boards in 1999 and endorsed by the organizations represented by panel members: JCAHO, CDC, PIDS, and NAHC.
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© 1999 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Inc. Published simultaneously in AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control (1999;27:418-30) and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (1999;20:695-705). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
