| Descriptor English: | Infection Control | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Control de Infecciones
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Controle de Infecções | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Prévention des infections | ||||||
| Entry term(s): |
Control, Infection Hospital Infection Control Services Infection Control Services, Hospital |
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| Tree number(s): |
N06.850.780.200.450 |
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| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017053 | ||||||
| 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. |
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| Annotation: | 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 |
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| Allowable Qualifiers: |
EC economics HI history IS instrumentation LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods OG organization & administration SN statistics & numerical data ST standards TD trends |
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| Previous Indexing: |
Communicable Disease Control (1966-1991) Cross Infection/prevention & control (1966-1991) Infection/prevention & control (1966-1991) |
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| Public MeSH Note: | 92; was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91 |
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| Online Note: | use INFECTION CONTROL to search INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91 |
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| History Note: | 92; was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91 |
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| Entry Version: | INFECT CONTROL |
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| DeCS ID: | 30037 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | D017053 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
| Date Established: | 1992/01/01 | ||||||
| Date of Entry: | 1991/07/19 | ||||||
| Revision Date: | 2008/07/08 |
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Infection Control
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| Concept UI |
M0025913 |
| 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. |
| Preferred term | Infection Control |
| Entry term(s) |
Control, Infection Hospital Infection Control Services Infection Control Services, Hospital |
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