Establishment of Infection Prevention and Control Service - A Time For Action!

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  • Nizam Damani Senior Consultant, Infection Prevention & Control World Health Organization and Southern Health and Social, Care Trust, UK.

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https://doi.org/10.36570/jduhs.2020.1.933

Abstract

The term ‘Healthcare-associated infection’ is used to describe infections that are related to the delivery of healthcare in any care setting (e.g. hospitals, long-term care, and outpatient locations). Some patients who develop infections will have received care from multiple healthcare facilities (HCFs), in these cases sometimes it is not always possible to establish with certainty, where the primary source of infection occurred by these patients. The term Healthcare-associated infection replaces both the formerly used terms of Hospital-acquired infection and nosocomial infection.

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Published

2020-04-27

How to Cite

Damani, N. (2020). Establishment of Infection Prevention and Control Service - A Time For Action!. Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences (JDUHS), 14(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.36570/jduhs.2020.1.933

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Vol. 14 No. 1

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Editorial

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Copyright (c) 2020 Nizam Damani

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