Health Care

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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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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1 entry terms
  • Control, Infection

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

differentiate from COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL which tends to be on a large geographic, demographic or social level (e.g., city, underprivileged, elementary school, prisons) while INFECTION CONTROL tends to be restricted within health care facilities

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History Note

92; was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91

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Previous Indexing

  • Communicable Disease Control (1966-1991)
  • Cross Infection/prevention & control (1966-1991)
  • Infection/prevention & control (1966-1991)

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  1. N06.850w.780.200.450w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Infection Control. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017053. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017053
  2. Infection Control. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_prevention_and_control
  3. Infection Control. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4118322