Infection Prevention - New Perspectives and Controversies

The first edition of Infection Prevention reviewed evolving areas in infection prevention on topics including contact precautions, technology implementation, specific infections, and care in various settings. It summarized the current data on infection prevention, presents controversies on the various topics, and includes recommendations for patient safety. Addressing hot topics such as MRSA, C. difficile vaccination, mandatory flu vaccines, and CLABSI, this is the only text to include prevention and control overviews across a range of infection issues.
Written by experts in the field, this successor edition will update current chapters on the most cutting-edge models of care on emerging and evolving topics in infectious diseases. It will also include new material and chapters on high-level disinfection, diagnostic test stewardship, unique pathogens units, outpatient antibiotic stewardship, outpatient antibiotic therapy, as well as a chapter on infection prevention metrics: how much can we prevent healthcare associated infections and how hard should we try.
The second edition of Infection Prevention: New Perspectives and Controversies is a valuable resource for infection prevention professionals, healthcare quality and safety professionals, caring for patients in in- and outpatient settings.


Gonzalo Bearman MD, MPH
Richard P. Wenzel Professor of Medicine
Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Richmond, Virginia, USA

Daniel J Morgan, MD, MS


Associate Professor, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist
Epidemiology, Public Health and Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine and Baltimore VA Medical Center
Baltimore, MD, USA
Rekha K. Murthy, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Cedars-Sinai
Professor of Clinical Medicine,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA , USA

Susy Hota MD MSc
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control
University Health Network
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada