Healthcare Associated Infections terms starting with C

25 terms

  1. Care Provider A person who provides health services, such as, doctor, nurse, dentist, health educator.
  2. Catheter (KA-theh-ter) A flexible tube used to deliver fluids into or withdraw fluids from the body.
  3. Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Infection involving any part of the urinary system, including urethra, bladder, ureters, and kidney that is caused by the insertion of a urinary catheter.
  4. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) One of the foremost national agencies in the world that serves to support and advance public health.
  5. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) A federal agency that runs the national health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid
  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
  7. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
  8. Central Line 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.
  9. Central line catheter A long flexible tube that is inserted into a large blood vessel near the heart.
  10. Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Central line-associated bloodstream infections can result if an intravenous catheter is inserted incorrectly or not cared for properly.
  11. Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. An independent testing board that certifies infection prevention professionals by a formal written examination.
  12. Clostridium Difficile (klah-STRIH-dee-um dih-FIS-ih-lee) A type of bacterium found in human and animal waste.
  13. Clostridium Difficile Infection 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.
  14. Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease (CDI) An intestinal illness caused by toxins produced by the bacteria called Clostridium difficile.
  15. Collaboration People or groups working together to achieve a common goal.
  16. Community Acquired Infection 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…
  17. Confidence Intervals 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…
  18. Consumer / healthcare consumer The consumer is a person who uses healthcare services such as doctor visits, hospital services, laboratory services.
  19. Contact Isolation Designed to prevent transmission of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important infections that do not warrant strict isolation.
  20. Contagious 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…
  21. Contaminated To make dirty or impure.
  22. Contamination To make impure, infected, corrupt, etc, by contact with or addition of something; to pollute something.
  23. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft A surgical replacement for clogged blood vessels located near the heart.
  24. Critical Access Hospital (CAH) A small, generally geographically remote facility that provides outpatient and inpatient hospital services to people in rural areas.
  25. Cross-infection Infection of a patient with bacteria from another person.