Society guideline links: Infection control

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This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Infection prevention and control – Guidelines and publications

Canada

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Healthcare infection prevention and control guidelines

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on infection prevention and control in paediatric office settings (2018, reaffirmed 2024)

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Infection control – For health care providers

•Guidelines and guidance library

•Tools and resources

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book (2024)

•Infection prevention and control for hospitalized children

•Infection prevention and control in ambulatory settings

•Infection prevention and control precautions

•Management and prevention of infectious diseases

●Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), American Hospital Association (AHA), and The Joint Commission: A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute-care hospitals, 2022 updates (published 2023)

•SHEA, IDSA. APIC, AHA, and The Joint Commission: Practice recommendation on implementing strategies to prevent infections in acute-care settings, 2022 update (published 2023)

•SHEA, IDSA, APIC, AHA, and The Joint Commission: Practice recommendation on strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene, 2022 update (published 2023)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guidelines for the evaluation of fever and infection in older adult residents of long-term care facilities, 2008 (ARCHIVED; published 2009)

●SHEA/APIC: Guideline on infection prevention and control in the long-term care facility (2008)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Directory of online resources for prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and healthcare-associated infections (HAI)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on healthcare-associated infections – Prevention and control in primary and community care (2012, updated 2017)

●NICE: Quality standard on healthcare-associated infections (2016)

●NICE: Quality standard on infection prevention and control (2014)

●NICE: Public health guideline on healthcare-associated infections – Prevention and control (2011)

Japan

●[In Japanese] National University Hospital Intensive Care Unit Council: ICU infection prevention guideline, 2nd edition (2013)