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A person who provides health services, such as, doctor, nurse, dentist, health educator.
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A hollow tube employed to drain fluids from body cavities.
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Infection involving any part of the urinary system, including urethra, bladder, ureters, and kidney that is caused by the insertion of a urinary catheter.
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One of the foremost national agencies in the world that serves to support and advance public health. It provides disease surveillance, reference laboratory testing, field investigation and educational service expertise throughout the United States and abroad
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A federal agency that runs the national health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid
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A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
a federal government agency.
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The US federal agency which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
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A long tube inserted in the neck, chest, arm, or leg that ending near the heart. The line is used for taking blood samples, measuring blood pressure and giving medications.
A long tube inserted in the neck, chest, arm or leg that ends near the heart. They are used to take blood samples, measure blood pressure, and give medications.
A central line is a flexible tube that is inserted near a patient's heart or into one of the large blood vessels near the heart. A central line can be used to administer fluids, antibiotics or medical treatment such as chemotherapy. If a central line is inserted incorrectly or not cared for properly, a bloodstream infection can result.
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A long flexible tube that is inserted into a large blood vessel near the heart. A central line can be used to administer fluids, antibiotics, or medical treatments such as chemotherapy. If a central line is inserted incorrectly or not cared for properly, a bloodstream infection can result.
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An infection that spreads through the blood from its origin, the insertion site of the central line.
Central line-associated bloodstream infections can result if an intravenous catheter is inserted incorrectly or not cared for properly.
The National Healthcare Safety Network defines a CLABSI as a primary bloodstream infection in a patient that had a central line in place, at the time of or within, 48-hours before the development of the bloodstream infection.
An infection that spreads through the blood from its origin on a central line.
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An independent testing board that certifies infection prevention professionals by a formal written examination.
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a spore-forming, Gram-positive anaerobic bacillus that produces two exotoxins: toxin A and toxin B. It is a common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). It accounts for 15-25% of all episodes of AAD.
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A bacterium that is one of the most common causes of infection of the colon in the US. Patients taking antibiotics are at risk of becoming infected with C. difficile as antibiotics can disrupt the normal bacteria of the bowel, allowing C. difficile to become established in the colon. In some people, a toxin produced by C. difficile causes diarrhea, abdominal pain, severe inflammation of the colon, fever, an elevated white blood cell count, vomiting, and dehydration.
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An intestinal illness caused by toxins that are produced by a specific type of bacteria named Clostridium difficile.
An intestinal illness caused by toxins produced by the bacteria called Clostridium difficile.
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People or groups working together to achieve a common goal.
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An infection that occurs without exposure in recent weeks or months to the risk from care in a hospital, clinic, doctor’s office, or home-care treatment by a healthcare provider.
An infection that occurs without exposure in recent weeks or months to the risk from care in a hospital, clinic, doctor’s office, or home-care treatment by a health professional.
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The confidence interval for a hospital's standardized infection ratio (SIR) is the range of possible SIRs within which there is a 95 percent confidence that the real SIR for that hospital lies, given the number of infections and procedures that were observed in that hospital in a specific time period.
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The consumer is a person who uses healthcare services such as doctor visits, hospital services, laboratory services.
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Designed to prevent transmission of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important infections that do not warrant strict isolation. All diseases included in this category are spread primarily by close or direct contact such as HSV and respiratory infections in infants and young children. Private room is indicated although patients infected with the same organism may share a room. Masks are indicated for those who come close to the patient. Gowns are indicated if soiling is likely. Gloves are indicated for touching infective material. Hands much be washed after touching the patient or potentially contaminated articles and before taking care of another patient. Articles contaminated with infective material should be discarded or bagged and labeled.
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Easily spread from one person to another or from one part of the body to another; able to be spread from person to person or living object to nonliving object to living object (such as person to doorknob to person).
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