Best practices for IPs and anyone who cares for patients with C. difficile or in facilities with patients who are being treated for C. difficile infections (CDI).

Practice guidance for the elimination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission in hospital settings.

Summary of the latest studies, outbreak experiences, applicable guidelines, and tools to manage and eliminate transmission of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDR Ab) in healthcare settings.

Comprehensive strategies for eliminating MRSA across the entire spectrum of long-term care (LTC) facilities.

Available to members.

CDC’s overview page

CDC’s educational effort, Be Antibiotics Aware, aims to improve antibiotic prescribing and use among consumer and healthcare professional audiences to protect patient safety and combat drug resistance.

In 2014, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a new set of core elements for acute-care hospitals to implement key strategies in antimicrobial stewardship (AS).

CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship offer providers and facilities a set of key principles to guide efforts to improve antibiotic use and, therefore, advance patient safety and improve outcomes.

Tips and advice for use of antibiotics.

Healthcare professionals can earn continuing education (CE) through these antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic stewardship trainings.

Healthcare professionals and partner organizations—including health departments and professional societies — can review and share the Antibiotic Stewardship Resource Bundles as part of their organization’s U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week promotion efforts.

Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit.

Member States have requested WHO policy guidance on how to facilitate the implementation of national AMS activities in an integrated and programmatic approach. This policy guidance responds to that demand from Member States and is anchored in public health guiding principles in the human health sector.

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (APIC collaborated with SHEA and other organizations on development of this resource)

Environmental cleaning and disinfection are essential for maintaining a safe patient environment.

There is an increased awareness of the relationship between effective environmental hygiene programs and infection prevention, patient harm reduction, and HCP safety.

Infection preventionists have varying levels of involvement with healthcare waste management and are often focused on regulated medical waste. The categories of regulated medical waste streams of particular interest to infection preventionists include infectious waste, pathological waste, and sharps waste.

Environmental services guidelines from the Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities (2003).

Environmental services (EVS) personnel have the shared responsibility to help stop healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) from spreading by working with colleagues, prioritizing areas that pose immediate safety risks, and following guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting. This interactive training illustrates the important role EVS personnel have in the prevention of HAIs.

Hospitals must maintain a clean environment and reduce germ exposure to keep patients, visitors and healthcare personnel safe.

This chapter provides the current best practices for environmental cleaning procedures in patient care areas, as well as cleaning for specific situations (e.g., blood spills) and for noncritical patient care equipment.

As part of the Project Firstline initiative, the AHA and AHE have released two cleaning and disinfecting job aids for frontline EVS professionals and their supervisors to use in their efforts to practice proper cleaning and disinfection in a variety of health care settings.

Environmental cleaning and infection prevention and control in health care facilities in low- and middle-income countries