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Preventing drug-resistant infections in health care.

Health care-acquired infections (HAIs) affect millions of health care workers and patients every year and are becoming increasingly resistant to common treatments. These dangerous infections are largely preventable, but are created primarily by the inappropriate administration of antibiotics and spr...

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Published in:Radiologic Technology Vol. 80; no. 3; pp. 217 - 238
Main Author: Furlow B
Format: pictorial review tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Society of Radiologic Technologists Jan/Feb2009
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          Cross Infection Prevention and Control
          Drug Resistance, Microbial
          Infection Control Methods
          Technology, Radiologic
          Antibiotics Therapeutic Use
          Antiinfective Agents, Local Therapeutic Use
          Bacteria
          Bacterial Colonization
          Bacterial Contamination
          Bacterial Infections Prevention and Control
          Biofilms
          Burkholderia
          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
          Cross Infection Epidemiology
          Cross Infection Risk Factors
          Disease Outbreaks
          Education, Continuing (Credit)
          Equipment Reuse
          Gels
          Handwashing
          Information Resources
          Methicillin Resistance
          Patient Isolation
          Prescriptions, Drug
          Radiologic Technologists
          Risk Assessment
          Staphylococcal Infections Epidemiology
          Staphylococcal Infections Transmission
          Sterilization and Disinfection
          United States
          World Wide Web
      ab: Health care-acquired infections (HAIs) affect millions of health care workers and patients every year and are becoming increasingly resistant to common treatments. These dangerous infections are largely preventable, but are created primarily by the inappropriate administration of antibiotics and spread by inadequate infection control practices by health care workers. Many institutions currently do not report or effectively control HAI outbreaks, but the regulatory climate is changing and medical imaging personnel have an important role in preventing the spread of HAIs. This article introduces contamination types and transmission facets of the HAI problem. Physical reservoirs in the health care environment are identified and the epidemiology, surveillance and control of emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria are reviewed.
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