Facilities/Settings
C. difficile germs move with patients from one health care facility to another, infecting other patients.
Tools
- Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) Infections Toolkit [PDF -1.04 MB]
- available in customizable format C. difficile Toolkit [PPT - 4.34 MB]
Activity C: ELC Prevention Collaboratives
- available in customizable format C. difficile Toolkit [PPT - 4.34 MB]
- Clostridium difficile Infection Baseline Prevention Practices Assessment Tool For States Establishing HAI Prevention Collaboratives [PDF - 241 KB]
- Options for Evaluating Environmental Cleaning
also available for download [PDF - 389 KB] - Appendices to the Conceptual Program Model for Environmental Evaluation
- CDC Environmental Checklist for Monitoring Terminal Cleaning [PDF - 99KB]
- Environmental Cleaning Eval Worksheet [Excel - 63 KB]
Health Care Facility Administrators Can:
- Support better testing, tracking, and reporting of infections and prevention efforts.
- Make sure cleaning staff follows CDC recommendations, using an EPA-approved spore-killing disinfectant in rooms where C. difficile patients are treated.
- Notify other health care facilities about infectious diseases when patients transfer, especially between hospitals and nursing homes.
- Participate in a regional C. difficile prevention effort.
Guidelines and Recommendations
- SHEA-IDSA Guideline Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by SHEA and IDSA [PDF - 549KB]
- Update on Hand Hygiene and C. difficile: Rationale for Hand Hygiene Recommendations after Caring for a Patient with Clostridium difficile Infection [PDF 134 KB]
- Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings, 2007
- Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings, 2006
- Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003 [PDF - 1.4 MB]
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