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APIC has a central office governed by an elected board of directors comprising four officers and nine to 12 directors. In addition, APIC has 124 regional chapters across the United States. Each chapter has their own elected officers and volunteers. Moreover, APIC offers a selection of areas of infection control concentration called sections.
One example for hand washing promotion in schools is the "Three Star Approach" by UNICEF that encourages schools to take simple, inexpensive steps to ensure that students wash their hands with soap, among other hygienic requirements. When minimum standards are achieved, schools can move from one to ultimately three stars. [91]
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is primarily composed of infection prevention and control professionals with nursing or medical technology backgrounds; The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is more heavily weighted towards practitioners who are physicians or doctoral-level epidemiologists.
Boyce, JM; Pittet, D; Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee; HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force (2002). "Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force.
The American Journal of Infection Control is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The journal publishes articles describing original research on the epidemiology, infection control, and infectious diseases.
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Cambridge University Press.It publishes research on control and evaluation of the transmission of pathogens in healthcare institutions and on the use of epidemiological principles and methods to evaluate and improve the delivery of care, including infection control practices, surveillance, cost-benefit ...
The current evidence that the effectiveness of school hand hygiene interventions is of poor quality. [23] In a 2020 Cochrane review comparing rinse-free hand washing to conventional soap and water techniques and the subsequent impact on school absenteeism found a small but beneficial effect on rinse-free hand washing on illness related absenteeism.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a virucide is "An agent that kills viruses to make them noninfective." [ 12 ] According to a definition by Robert Koch Institute Germany and further institutions, [ 13 ] virucide means effective against enveloped and non-enveloped viruses.