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She is the director of infection control, and works as a microbiologist and infectious disease consultant at the Mount Sinai Hospital. Her staff directory page acknowledges funding through an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer Canada. [2] McGeer studies the prevention and management of bacterial and viral infections. [7]
Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is a private nonprofit professional organization based in Arlington, VA for healthcare practitioners dedicated to the principles of infection control. APIC has more than 15,000 members. APIC concentrates its efforts in the hospital, nursing home and home health settings.
McGeer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allison McGeer (born 1953), Canadian infectious diseases specialist; Edith Graef McGeer (1923–2023), American-Canadian neuroscientist; Gerry McGeer (1888–1947), Canadian lawyer and politician; Manfred McGeer (1893–1955), Canadian politician
Infection prevention and control is the discipline concerned with preventing healthcare-associated infections; a practical rather than academic sub-discipline of epidemiology. In Northern Europe , infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health , known as "infection protection" ( smittevern ...
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.
AMMI Canada's vision is: "Fewer infections. Fewer outbreaks. Healthy Canadians" and its mission is to "advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infections." [12] AMMI Canada's strategic planning goals and initiatives are defined in six areas. These are: antimicrobial stewardship and resistance, infection prevention and control ...
An infection control plan was implemented at the Kaplan Medical Center in Israel to control a hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae. The comprehensive plan included guidelines for cohorting patients in separate locations, cleaning with 1,000 ppm hypochlorite , screening for isolates from rectal swabs, and distribution of ...