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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control
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Infection Control  

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Entry terms

  • Control, Infection

Note

  • differentiate from COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL which tends to be on a large geographic, demographic or social level (e.g., city, underprivileged, elementary school, prisons) while INFECTION CONTROL tends to be restricted within health care facilities

Scope note

  • Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.

History note

  • 92; was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017053

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