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SHEA/APIC Guideline: Infection prevention and controlin the long-term care facilityPhilip W. Smith, MD,aGail Bennett, RN, MSN, CIC,bSuzanne Bradley, MD,cPaul Drinka, MD,dEbbing Lautenbach, MD,eJames Marx, RN, MS, CIC,fLona Mody, MD,gLindsay Nicolle, MD,hand Kurt Stevenson, MDiJuly 2008 Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) may be defined asinstitutions that provide health care to people whoare unable to manage independently in the care may be chronic care management orshort-term rehabilitative services. The termnursinghomeis defined as a facility licensed with an organizedprofessional staff and inpatient beds that providescontinuous nursing and other services to patientswho are not in the acute phase of an illness. There isconsiderable overlap between the 2 than million residents reside in UnitedStates (US) nursing homes. In recent years, the acuityof illness of nursing home residents has residents have a risk of developing health care-associated Infection (HAI) that approaches that seen inacute care hospital patients.
documenting the efficacy of infection control in LTCFs, and few controlled studies have analyzed the efficacy or cost-effectiveness of the specific control measures
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