Quality Improvement for Healthcare Epidemiology: Creating a Culture of Excellence Julia E. Szymczak DEFINING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE It has been 20 years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published…
Ethical Issues in Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Emily Landon Cassandra Oehler Medical ethics are the governing principles that guide a practitioner’s interactions with his or her patients and assist…
Legal Issues in Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Sarah M. Fotheringham As in many areas of healthcare law, the legal issues and regulations surrounding matters related to epidemiology and infection…
Role of the Microbiology Laboratory and Molecular Diagnostics in Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Kaede V. Sullivan Daniel J. Diekema A primary goal of healthcare epidemiology is to protect patients…
Hand Hygiene Eli N. Perencevich Alexandre R. Marra OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF HAND HYGIENE One hundred and seventy years after the publication of Ignaz Semmelweis seminal study demonstrating the…
Isolation of Patients With Communicable Diseases Jason Bowling Jan Patterson Despite advances in the control of infectious diseases in the last century, there is more interest than ever in the…
Infectious Disease Surveillance in Healthcare Settings Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett Lauren M. DiBiase HISTORY OF U.S. INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE National surveillance for infectious diseases began in 1878 when the United States…
Principles of Healthcare Epidemiology Frances J. Boly Victoria J. Fraser Jennie H. Kwon Epidemiology is defined as the study of the factors determining the occurrence of disease in human populations….
Abstract In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were trying to understand the severity of the disease, many comparisons were drawn between this disease and influenza. These comparisons…
Abstract When the first news of the outbreak of a new coronavirus that caused pneumonia in Wuhan appeared in January 2020, it was unclear what effect the virus would have…
