Best Practices in Infection Control: An International Handbook

Edited by internationally known infection control experts Barbara Moore Soule, RN, MPA, CIC, and Ziad A. Memish, MD, FRCPC, FACP, CIC, FIDSA, this book focuses on the growing crisis in infection control across the spectrum of health care organizations. It points to the need for health care organizations to assess and consider new approaches to infection control in their patient safety and quality improvement efforts. Special features include: examples of compliance with JCI's infection control standards; simple, straightforward tips on how to use JCI standards for overall performance improvement; examples of how to reduce health care - acquired infections; a comprehensive case study profiling the events surrounding and the lessons learned from the 2003 Hong Kong and Canadian outbreaks of SARS; and, examples showing how people and organizations worldwide are dealing with their local infection control issues.