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

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

DUI

D017053 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0025913

Previous indexing

Communicable Disease Control (1966-1991); Cross Infection/prevention & control (1966-1991); Infection/prevention & control (1966-1991)

History note

92; was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91

Online note

use INFECTION CONTROL to search INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91

Public note

92; was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91