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Infection Control in Pediatric Extended Care Facilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Jo-Ann S. Harris
Jo-Ann S. Harris*
Affiliation:
Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, and, Franciscan Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
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Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Kansas Medical Center, MS 4004, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160 (jharris7@kumc.edu)
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Abstract

Pediatric extended care facilities provide for the biopsychosocial needs of patients younger than 21 years of age who have sustained self-care deficits. These facilities include long-term and residential care facilities, chronic disease and specialty hospitals, and residential schools. Infection control policies and procedures developed for adult long-term care facilities, primarily nursing homes for elderly people, are not applicable to long-term care facilities that serve pediatric patients. This article reviews the characteristics of pediatric extended care facilities and their residents, and the epidemic and endemic nosocomial infections, infection control programs, and antimicrobial resistance profiles found in pediatric extended care facilities.

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Review Article
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , June 2006 , pp. 598 - 603
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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