Routine Practices and Additional Precautions for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Healthcare Settings
Consider these guidances from 2013, in relation to the following:
- Notice: Updated infection prevention and control recommendations for Measles in healthcare settings
- Notice: Interim recommendations for infection prevention and control of avian influenza in healthcare settings
- Disclaimer: The recommendations for hantavirus in Routine Practices and Additional Precautions for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Healthcare Settings do not apply to hantavirus Andes species (ANDV).
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Organization:
Public Health Agency of Canada
Type: Report
Date published: September 2017
Cat.: HP40-83/2013E-PDF
ISBN: 978-1-100-22038-3
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Introductory statement
- Target users
- Guideline working group
- Overview
- Part A: Introduction to routine practices and additional precautions
- I. Introduction
- II. Principles of transmission of microorganisms
- III. Control measures to reduce healthcare worker exposure to and transmission of microorganisms
- Part B: Recommendations for routine practices and additional precautions
- I. Role of organization
- II. Role of healthcare workers
- III. Recommendations for routine practices in all healthcare settings
- IV. Recommendations for additional precautions in all healthcare settings and modifications for precautions in specific healthcare settings
- Subsection i: Contact precautions for all care settings and modifications for specific healthcare settings
- Subsection ii: Droplet precautions in all care settings and modifications for specific healthcare settings
- Subsection iii: Airborne precautions in all care settings and modifications for specific healthcare settings
- Part C: Transmission characteristics and precautions
- Part D: Appendices
- Appendix I: PHAC infection prevention and control guideline development process
- Appendix II: Definition of terms used to evaluate evidence
- Appendix III: PHAC criteria for rating evidence on which recommendations are based
- Appendix IV: List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Appendix V: Glossary of terms
- Appendix VI: Epidemiologically significant organisms requiring additional precautions
- Appendix VII: Terminal cleaning
- Appendix VIII: Air changes per hour and time in minutes required for removal efficiencies of 90%, 99% and 99.9% of airborne contaminants
- Appendix IX: Advantages and disadvantages of barrier equipment
- Appendix X: Technique for putting on and taking off personal protective equipment
- Reference list
List of tables
- Table 1: Ventilation Recommendations for Selected Areas in Healthcare Facilities
- Table 2: Factors influencing transmission risk using C. difficile as an example of contact spread
- Table 3: Factors influencing transmission risk using seasonal influenza as an example of droplet spread
- Table 4: Transmission characteristics and precautions by condition/clinical presentation
- Table 5: Transmission characteristics and precautions by specific etiology
Inventory of lists
- List 1: Examples of environmental sources of contamination
- List 2: Examples of control measures according to hierarchy of controls
- List 3: Conditions and/or clinical presentations and specific etiologies requiring contact precautions
- List 4: Conditions/clinical presentations and specific etiologies requiring droplet precautions
- List 5: Conditions and/or clinical presentations and specific etiologies requiring airborne precautions