The CDC has been developing guidelines and recommendations to prevent and control health care–associated infections since the 1970s and with advice from HICPAC since the 1990s” Chopra et al (2020).
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The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) is a federal advisory committee chartered to provide advice and guidance to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The committee focuses on infection control issues and strategies for surveillance, prevention, and control of health care–associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, and related events in U.S. health care settings (1). The CDC has been developing guidelines and recommendations to prevent and control health care–associated infections since the 1970s and with advice from HICPAC since the 1990s. These recommendations have focused on health…
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Reference:
Chopra, V., Janssen, L., Bryant, K., Fauerbach, L., Talbot III, T.R. and Babcock, H.M. (2020) A Process for Assessing Products for Infection Prevention in Health Care Settings: A Framework From the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annals of Internal Medicine. 172(1), p.30-34. DOI: 10.7326/M19-2172.