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Hepatitis C in Healthcare Settings

Prevention & Control of Hepatitis C in Healthcare Settings

These resources may be of use to healthcare practitioners:

Protecting Patients

• Table 1. Recommended infection-control and safe injection practices to prevent patient-to-patient transmission of bloodborn pathogens.
• Sterilization and disinfection of medical devices: General principles
   

Protecting Healthcare Workers

• Workbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program
  A workbook designed for Infection Control & Occupational Health Personnel, Hospital Administrators and Sharps Injury Prevention Committees.
• Exposure to Blood - What Health-Care Workers Need to Know Updated: July 2003PDF (10 pages / 371KB)A published booklet with important information about occupational exposures to blood, the risks of infection and important measures that should occur after an exposure.
• Fact Sheet: Universal Precautions and Protective Barriers 1996
• Laundry: Washing Infected Material
   

Guidelines

• Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007 PDF(1.33MB /219 pages)
• Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients. MMWR 2001;50(No. RR-5)
• Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease. MMWR 1998
• Updated PHS Guideline for Management of Occupational HIV/HBV/HCV Exposures (2001)
• Management of Occupational Exposures to He patitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis-Updated 2001
  Public Health Service Guideline along with Posters, Slide Sets, and CD-ROM
   

 

Date last modified: March 27, 2008
Content source: 
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID)

 

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