Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)

HICPAC Publications

Guideline for Isolation Precautions
Published 2007

Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organism 2006 PDF (233 KB, 74 page)
This Guideline replaces Preventing the spread of vancomycin resistance-HICPAC Recommendations

Influenza Vaccination of Health-Care Personnel
MMWR February, 2006/55(RR02);1-16

Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections
AJIC February, 2005;Vol.33/No.4 PDF (150KB, 10 pages)

Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare Associated Pneumonia
Published 2004

Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
Published 2003

Recommendations for Using Smallpox Vaccine in a Pre-Event Vaccination Program
MMWR, April, 2003;/52(RR07);1-16

Guidelines for Preventing Intravascular Device-Related Infections
Published 2002 MMWR 2002;51(No. RR-10):1–36

Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
Published 2002

Guideline for Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel
Am J Infect Control 1998;26:289-354.

Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1999;20:247-280.

Immunization of Health Care Workers
MMWR, December, 1997;46(RR-18);1-42

Goldman DA, Weinstein RA, Wenzel RP, et al. Strategies to Prevent and Control the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistant Microorganisms in Hospitals—A Challenge to Hospital Leadership. Workshop to Prevent and Control the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistant Microorganisms in Hospitals. JAMA 1996; 275:234-40.

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