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Maximizing Infection Prevention in the Next Decade: Defining the Unacceptable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas R. Frieden
Thomas R. Frieden*
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333 (tfrieden@cdc.gov)
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Abstract

An important role of public health agencies is to define the unacceptable. This concept has particular relevance for healthcare-associated infections. Evidence indicates that, with focused efforts, these once-formidable infections can be greatly reduced in number, leading to a new normal for healthcare-associated infections as rare, unacceptable events.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue S1: Papers from the Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections , November 2010 , pp. S1 - S3
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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