Infection Prevention and Control

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Guidelines for hand hygiene in health-care settings:  Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force.  Morb Mortal Weekly Rep 2002;51(RR-16):1-44.
2. Health Canada.  Routine practices and additional precautions for preventing the transmission of infection in health care. Can Commun Dis Rep 1999;25S4.
3. http:www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/publicat/ccdr-rmtc/01pdf/27s2e.pdf
4. Muto CA, Jernigan JA, Ostrowsky BE, et al.  SHEA guideline for preventing nosocomial transmission of multidrug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus. Infect Control Hosp Epidem 2003;24(5):362-86.