Principles of Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings, Part 1: Facility Management and Planning, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 40-2 - May 12, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Keith S. Kaye
- Language: English
In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Keith S. Kaye and Sorabh Dhar bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Infect… Read more
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Description
In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Keith S. Kaye and Sorabh Dhar bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare, Part 1. In the next five years, it is anticipated that healthcare facilities will continue to evolve by integrating advanced technologies and infrastructure improvements to strengthen IPC programs, adopting innovative solutions to monitor and control infections. In this Part One issue, top experts provide state-of-the-art information to infectious disease clinicians on these innovations in preventing healthcare-associated infections.
Key features
Key features
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including infection prevention keys to maintaining an effective and hygienic disinfection and sterilization program; how to conduct an effective outbreak investigation; management of infectious diseases exposures in healthcare personnel; antimicrobial stewardship for infection control professionals; infection prevention in long-term care, ambulatory surgery, and other alternative healthcare settings; and more
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on infection prevention and control in healthcare, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews
Readership
Readership
Infectious Diseases
Table of contents
Table of contents
Blueprint for a Successful Infection Prevention Program
Optimizing Hand Hygiene Compliance
Sterilization and High-Level Disinfection in 2026: New and Emerging Topics
Optimizing Patient-Zone Environmental Hygiene: The Way Forward
Outbreaks of Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections and Their Management in Healthcare Settings
Implementing, Maintaining, and Evaluating Water Management Programs in Health Care: The Multidisciplinary Effort to Prevent Infections from Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens
The Built Environment and Reservoirs of Antimicrobial Resistance: Are Mitigation and Prevention Possible Using Design and Daily Facility Operations Strategies?
Evaluation and Management of Occupational Exposures and Postexposure Prophylaxis
Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Informatics for Infection Prevention and Control
Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Infection Control Professional: Mutual Collaboration for Mutual Benefit
Safer, Better, Faster, and Stronger: Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, a Great Duo in Action
Infection Prevention and Control in Long-Term Settings
Optimizing Infection Prevention in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
Optimizing Hand Hygiene Compliance
Sterilization and High-Level Disinfection in 2026: New and Emerging Topics
Optimizing Patient-Zone Environmental Hygiene: The Way Forward
Outbreaks of Emerging and Re-Emerging Infections and Their Management in Healthcare Settings
Implementing, Maintaining, and Evaluating Water Management Programs in Health Care: The Multidisciplinary Effort to Prevent Infections from Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens
The Built Environment and Reservoirs of Antimicrobial Resistance: Are Mitigation and Prevention Possible Using Design and Daily Facility Operations Strategies?
Evaluation and Management of Occupational Exposures and Postexposure Prophylaxis
Approach to Evaluation of Health Care Personnel and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Informatics for Infection Prevention and Control
Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Infection Control Professional: Mutual Collaboration for Mutual Benefit
Safer, Better, Faster, and Stronger: Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, a Great Duo in Action
Infection Prevention and Control in Long-Term Settings
Optimizing Infection Prevention in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 40-2
- Published: May 12, 2026
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
KK
Keith S. Kaye
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Corporate Director of Infection Prevention
Hospital Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship
Detroit Medical Center
Detroit, MI