 Infection Control
"Infection Control" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D017053
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.780.200.450
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Infection Control".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Infection Control".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Infection Control" by people in this website by year, and whether "Infection Control" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2010 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2011 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2013 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2016 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2017 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Infection Control" by people in Profiles.
-
Warnke P, Köller T, Kreikemeyer B, Barrantes I, Mach H, Podbielski A. Molecular epidemiology study of a nosocomial Moraxella catarrhalis outbreak in a neurological rehabilitation unit. J Hosp Infect. 2019 Sep; 103(1):27-34.
-
Patel RM, Kociolek LK, Merrick E, Reuter C, Kronforst K, Zheng X, Patel SJ. Safety of Palivizumab Stewardship in Conjunction with Infection Prevention and Control Strategies for Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 04; 39(4):485-487.
-
Schora DM, Peterson LR, Usacheva EA. Immunological Stability of Clostridium difficile Toxins in Clinical Specimens. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 04; 39(4):434-438.
-
Peterson LR. Contact Precautions for Multidrug-Resistant Organisms. JAMA. 2017 12 12; 318(22):2257.
-
Banach DB, Johnston BL, Al-Zubeidi D, Bartlett AH, Bleasdale SC, Deloney VM, Enfield KB, Guzman-Cottrill JA, Lowe C, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Popovich KJ, Patel PK, Ravin K, Rowe T, Shenoy ES, Stienecker R, Tosh PK, Trivedi KK. Outbreak Response and Incident Management: SHEA Guidance and Resources for Healthcare Epidemiologists in United States Acute-Care Hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 12; 38(12):1393-1419.
-
Gaines S, Luo JN, Gilbert J, Zaborina O, Alverdy JC. Optimum Operating Room Environment for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2017 May/Jun; 18(4):503-507.
-
Abramowicz JS, Evans DH, Fowlkes JB, Maršal K, terHaar G. Guidelines for Cleaning Transvaginal Ultrasound Transducers Between Patients. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2017 05; 43(5):1076-1079.
-
Limper HM, Slawsky L, Garcia-Houchins S, Mehta S, Hershow RC, Landon E. Assessment of an Aggregate-Level Hand Hygiene Monitoring Technology for Measuring Hand Hygiene Performance Among Healthcare Personnel. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 03; 38(3):348-352.
-
Dekker JP, Frank KM. Next-Generation Epidemiology: Using Real-Time Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing To Support Infection Control Policy. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 12; 54(12):2850-2853.
-
Patel PA, Boehm S, Zhou Y, Zhu C, Peterson KE, Grayes A, Peterson LR. Prospective observational study on central line-associated bloodstream infections and central venous catheter occlusions using a negative displacement connector with an alcohol disinfecting cap. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Feb 01; 45(2):115-120.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|