Society guideline links: Infection control

Introduction — 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.

The recommendations in the following guidelines may vary from those that appear in UpToDate topic reviews. Readers who are looking for UpToDate topic reviews should use the UpToDate search box to find the relevant content.

International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Infection prevention and control – Evidence, guidelines, and publications

Canada

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Disease prevention and control guidelines – Infection control

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

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Infection control

•Guidelines and guidance library

•Tools for healthcare settings

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book (2021)

•Infection prevention and control for hospitalized children

•Infection prevention and control in ambulatory settings

●Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): Expert guidance on duration of contact precautions for acute-care settings (2018)

●SHEA: Expert guidance on healthcare personnel attire in non-operating-room settings (2018)

●SHEA: Compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals, update (2014)

●Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC): Guide to the elimination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission in hospital settings, 2nd edition (2010)

●APIC: Guide to the elimination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the long-term care facility (2009)

Europe

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

●European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)-European Committee of Infection Control (EUCIC): Clinical guidelines on decolonization of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria carriers (2019)

●ESCMID: Guidelines for the management of the infection control measures to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in hospitalized patients (2014)

●ESCMID: Expert consensus statement on laboratory tools and strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening, surveillance and typing – State of the art and unmet needs (2009)

●ESCMID: Expert consensus statement on prevention and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (2009)

United Kingdom

●Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) and Infection Prevention Society (IPS): Joint guidelines for the prevention and control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in healthcare facilities (2021)

●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)

●Expert Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI): Implementation of modified admission MRSA screening guidance (2014)

●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)