Table 1

Open-access world wide web resources on control of nosocomial infections

Website title (country)
Web site address
Title of web page presenting information

National Library of Medicine (USA)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
MedlinePlus: Infection control
Faculty of Medicine: University Catholic of Louvain (Belgium)
http://www.uclouvain.be/md.html
Infection control
Infection control today magazine (USA)
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com
Infection control programs
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (USA)
http://www.apic.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
Infectious disease centre. Practice guidance
Infection Control Nurses Association (UK)
http://www.icna.co.uk/
Public downloads
Yale-New Haven Medical Center (USA)
http://www.med.yale.edu
Yale-New Haven hospital infection control manual
Australian Government.


Department of Health and Ageing (Australia)
http://www.health.gov.au
Infection control guidelines. Navigation page
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK)
http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=home
Infection control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
http://www.cdc.gov
Infection control in health care settings
National Health Service (NHS) plus – Health at work (UK)
http://www.nhsplus.nhs.uk/default.asp
NHS stuff. Infection control
Royal College of nursing (UK)
http://www.rcn.org.uk
Good practice in infection prevention and control
American Dental Association (USA)
http://www.ada.org/index.asp
Oral health topics. Infection control
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/
Hospital hygiene and infection control
Public Health Agency of Canada (Canada)
http://www.phac-asp.gc.ca/new_e.html
Guidelines on infection control
NSW Health (Australia)
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/
Infection control policy
Infection Control Department (USA)
http://infectioncontrol.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/
Infection control policy. Standard and transmission based precautions
Victorian Government Health information (Australia)
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/
Guidelines and regulations
Health protection agency (UK)
http://www.hpa.org.uk
Centre for infections
St. Joseph's Health Care, London (UK)
http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca
Infection prevention and control
UK National Audit Office (UK)
http://www.nao.org.uk
The management and control of hospital acquired infection in acute NHS trusts in England
Queensland Health (Australia)
http://www.health.qld.gov.au
Infection control
College of Nurses of Ontario (Canada)
http://www.cno.org
Infection prevention and control
Scottish Government, Scottish Executive (Scotland)
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Home
Infection control standards for adult care homes
HIV Dent (USA)
http://www.hivdent.org
Infection control and postexposure protocols
National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
http://www.nuigalway.ie
Infection control
Infection control services, University College, London hospitals (UK)
http://www.infectioncontrolservices.co.uk/Default.htm
Infection control philosophy
Gastroenterological Society of Australia (Australia)
http://www.gesa.org.au/index.htm
Infection control in endoscopy
Health protection Scotland
http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/index.aspx
Strengthening and co-ordinating health protection in Scotland
Imperial College of London (UK)
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/
Control of infection: how to avoid damaging yourself and your patient
Harborview Medical Centre (HMC; USA)
http://www.uwmedicine.org/Facilities/Harborview/
HMC epidemiology/infection control
Infection control nurses of Connecticut (USA)
http://www.infectioncontrolct.org/
Infection control nurses of Connecticut
King County Government, Seattle, Washington (USA)
http://www.metrokc.gov/
Communicable diseases, epidemiology and immunization
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
http://www.unc.edu
Resources on the internet on infection control
Infection Control Resource (USA)
http://www.infectioncontrolresource.org/
Infection control resource
William Fleming high school, VA (USA)
http://www.roanoke.k12.va.us/schools/Fleming/lawson/jgpage/weblesn.htm
Principles of infection control
Oregon Government (USA)
http://www.oregon.gov/
Acute and communicable disease prevention
Community and Hospital Infection Control Association (Canada)
http://www.chica.org/
Links and resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
http://www.cdc.gov
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
New York State (USA)
http://www.ny.gov/
Infection control
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource (USA)
http://www.thebody.com/index.html
Infection control in the correctional setting
University of Virginia Health System (USA)
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/
Infection control manual
Vanderbilt Medical Center (USA)
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/
Department of Infection Control and Prevention
British Columbian Centre for Disease Control (Canada)
http://bccdc.org/divisionphp?item=11
Infection control guidelines
Florida Department of Health (USA)
http://www.doh.state.fl.us
Florida's health
Institute of algorithmic medicine (USA)
http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx
The medical algorithms project. Infection control
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
http://aic.cuhk.edu.hk/
Infection control
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Europe)
http://www.cobatrice.org
Patient safety and health systems management. Infection control
Johns Hopkins Medicine (USA)
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/index.html
Hospital epidemiology and infection control
Medical-Journals.com (UK)
http://www.medical-journals.com/
Infection control – a problem for patient safety




Website direct address
Comments


http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infectioncontrol.html
Provides infection control guidelines

http://www.md.ucl.ac.be/didac/hosp/infco.htm
A database of many articles with abstracts, published since 1 January 1994

http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/category.asp/sectionID/403
Provides articles concerning infection control

http:/ / www.apic.org/ AM/ Template.cfm?Section=Guidelines&Tem plate=/ TaggedPage/ TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=6&Conte ntID=519
Provides infection control guidelines.

http://www.icna.co.uk/publicdownloads/index.Asp
Mainly for members of the association

http://www.med.yale.edu/ynhh/infection/
Good collection of preventive measures for infection control

http:/ / www.health.gov.au/ internet/ wcms/ Publishing.nsf/ content/ icg-guidelines-index.htm
Infection control guidelines for the prevention of transmission of infectious diseases in the health care setting

http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=CG002
Provides a set of measures to avoid infection that should be followed by anyone giving or receiving care at home or at a health centre

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/index.html
Guidelines for keeping patients and health care workers in health care settings protected from infectious diseases

http://www.nhsplus.nhs.uk/nhsstaff/infection.asp
Limited information

http:/ / www.rcn.org.uk/ resources/ mrsa/ healthcarestaff/ infectioncontrol/ index.php
Guidance for nursing stuff. Information on infection control and prevention

http://www.ada.org/public/topics/infection_control_faq.asp#3
Brief answers on dental health

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/medicalwaste/148to158.pdf
Information on epidemiology and prevention of hospital infections

http://www.phac-asp.gc.ca/dpg e html#infection
Contains guidelines on infection control

http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/PD/2005/pdf/PD2005_247.pdf
Policy directive of the Australian Department of Health. Contains guidelines on hospital infection control

http:/ / infectioncontrol.ucsfmedicalcenter. org/ STD__Trans_Precautions_final.pdf
Contains guidelines on hospital infection control

http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/regulations/index.htm
Infectious disease regulation and guidelines

http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/default.htm
Carries out a broad spectrum of work related to prevention of infectious diseases

http://www.sjhc.london.on.ca/infectioncontrol/
Contains information on infection control

http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/9900230.pdf
General information on infection control and costs of hospital acquired infections

http://www.health.qld.gov.au/infectioncontrol/guidelines.html
Queensland government infection control guidelines

http://www.cno.org/docs/prac/41002_infection.pdf
Guidelines for nurses

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/03/19927/42764#11
Provides infection control standards for adult care homes

http://www.hivdent.org/infctl/office.htm
Dental office issues

http://www.nuigalway.ie/bac/control_of_infection.htm
General information on infection control

http://www.infectioncontrolservices.co.uk/intro1.htm
Contains information on infection control

http://www.gesa.org.au/members_guidelines/endoscopy_inf/
Practice guidelines for endoscopic procedures

http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/scieh.asp
Contains infection control procedures

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/OCCHEALTH/formedicalstudents/controlofinfection/
Basic principles of infection control

http://depts.washington.edu/ictrain/icmanual/
Infection control manual

http://www.infectioncontrolct.org/
Contains useful information and helpful links on infection control

http://www.metrokc.gov/health/providers/epidemiology/index.htm
Information for health care providers

http://www.unc.edu/depts/spice/resource.html
Contains many links

http://www.infectioncontrolresource.org/
Contains articles on prevention strategies for infection control practitioners and professional nurses

http://www.roanoke.k12.va.us/schools/Fleming/lawson/jgpage/infect.htm
An internet lesson to introduce health occupation students to infection control and prevention

http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/acd/lhd/infectcontrol.shtml#genl
General disease control and antimicrobial resistance

http://www.chica.org/links_overview.html
Information on hand hygiene, bioterrorism and disasters. Needs subscription for further information

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/ic-closecontacts.htm
Only for SARS. Limited information

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/infection/infecontrol.htm
Guidelines on infection control

http://www.thebody.com/hepp/julaug04/infection_control.html?m59t
Information on HIV prevention

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/infection-control/
Contains infection control procedures

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=infectioncontrol&doc=4616
Isolation guidelines, infection control policies

http://www.bccdc.org/content.php?item=194
Contains infection control guidelines and many links.

http:/ / www.doh.state.fl.us/ Disease ctrl/ epi/ icg/ icg.pdf#search=%22%22infection%20co ntrol%22%20icu%20guidelines%22
Main focus is on pandemic influenza and avian flu

http://www.medal.org/visitor/www/inactive/ch26.aspx
Information on control of the majority of nosocomial infections. Requires registration

http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/SARS%20infection%20control.htm
Focus on SARS

http:/ / 212.149.150.161:8080/ coba/ results.jsp?sea=1&id=4&subid=11&li= 0&subsubid=11.2
Contains practice guidelines on prevention of nosocomial infections

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic
Information on infectious diseases and their prevention

http://www.medical-journals.com/r037.htm
An article on nosocomial infections


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