Definitions for infection control
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1. infection control

   Infection prevention and control is the discipline concerned with preventing healthcare-associated infections; a practical rather than academic sub-discipline of epidemiology. In Northern Europe, infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health, known as "infection protection" (smittevern, smittskydd, Infektionsschutz in the local languages). It is an essential part of the infrastructure of health care. Infection control and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society as a whole.Infection control addresses factors related to the spread of infections within the healthcare setting, whether among patients, from patients to staff, from staff to patients, or among staff. This includes preventive measures such as hand washing, cleaning, disinfecting, sterilizing, and vaccinating. Other aspects include surveillance, monitoring, and investigating and managing suspected outbreaks of infection within a healthcare setting.A subsidiary aspect of infection control involves preventing the spread of antimicrobial-resistant organisms such as MRSA. This in turn connects to the discipline of antimicrobial stewardship—limiting the use of antimicrobials to necessary cases, as increased usage inevitably results in the selection and dissemination of resistant organisms. Antimicrobial medications (aka antimicrobials or anti-infective agents) include antibiotics, antibacterials, antifungals, antivirals and antiprotozoals.The World Health Organization (WHO) has set up an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) unit in its Service Delivery and Safety department that publishes related guidelines.

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1. Infection control

   Infection control is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often underrecognized and undersupported, part of the infrastructure of health care. Infection control and hospital epidemiology are akin to public health practice, practiced within the confines of a particular health-care delivery system rather than directed at society as a whole. Infection control addresses factors related to the spread of infections within the health-care setting, including prevention, monitoring/investigation of demonstrated or suspected spread of infection within a particular health-care setting, and management. It is on this basis that the common title being adopted within health care is "Infection Prevention & Control."

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1. Infection Control

   Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of infection control in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of infection control in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of infection control in a Sentence

1. Ann Marie:

   You’d like to say no. We have a lot more infection control, a lot more ability to support people who are sick. We have modern medicine, but we have a lot more people and a lot more mobility. ... The fear is eventually a new strain gets around a particular vaccine target.

2. Jeffrey Duchin:

   We are now in the process of working with the long-term care facility, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and we're in a process of providing support to that facility to care for the infected patients, to protect the uninfected patients, and to provide infection control.

3. Ben Zaranko:

   If you add up all the time that staff spend doing infection control measures, donning protective equipment and separating out wards into people with and without Covid … that might impede the overall productivity of the system.

4. Erin Bromage:

   From an infection-control standpoint, it's a terrible idea.

5. John Combes:

   There's going to be a pandemic of well-being issues in health care workers, including residents and fellows, that will parallel the [ Covid ] pandemic unless we begin to address it now and into the future, even after the pandemic is over, we feel it's very important that residents receive adequate rest, particularly in an area when they need to be paying close attention to infection control practices and the use of personal protective equipment. So that's our number one concern.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_Control
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=infection control