Purpose
Infection control guidelines and recommendations for healthcare settings.
Infection prevention and control
CDC's Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings
Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities (2008)
Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities (2003)
Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings (2002)
Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings (2007)
Standard precautions make use of common sense practices to prevent the spread of infection in health...
Transmission-based precautions are used when patients already have confirmed or suspected infections.
Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel
Infrastructure and Routine Practices for Occupational Infection Prevention and Control Services (201
Epidemiology and Control of Selected Infections Transmitted Among Healthcare Personnel and Patients
Medical devices
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections (2011)
Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (2009)
Medical procedures
Organ Transplantation Guidelines
Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection (2017)
Diseases and organisms
See infection prevention and control (IPC) guidance and practices for healthcare personnel when cari...
Guideline for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia (2003)
Interim Guidance for Infection Control Within Healthcare Settings When Caring for Patients with Conf...
Prevention Strategies for Seasonal Influenza in Healthcare Settings - CDC
Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Measles in Healthcare Settings
Mpox infection control in healthcare settings, households, and when handling human remains.
Infection control procedures to prevent transmission of MERS-CoV in hospitals.
Containment strategies for novel or targeted multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
This guideline provides recommendations for management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcar...
Prevention strategies against the spread of novel or targeted multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).
Guideline for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Healthcare Settin...
Health care settings should have a tuberculosis infection control plan.
Infection control measures to prevent all viral respiratory infections in healthcare settings.
Setting-specific
Learn about CDC's guidelines and resources on infection prevention practices in dental settings.
Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients (2001)...
Guidelines to prevent and control central line-associated blood stream infections in NICU patients.
Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: S...
Guideline reviews
CDC and a assisted in creating several of the guideline listed above. This group also would, historically, review guidelines and evaluate them based on available evidence. Examples are included below.
This systematic review is designed to evaluate the available evidence on C. difficile in the NICU. T...
This appendix to HICPAC's systematic review is designed to evaluate the available evidence on C. dif...
A white paper based on expert opinion for broader use of EBP beyond targeted multidrug-resistant org...
HICPAC recommendation to amend the NHSN catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) definiti...
Analysis and Recommendations on the NHSN Clostridioides difficile Outcome, July 2017-November 2018
A transparent and rigorous process for the Committee to use when formulating product-specific recomm...
HICPAC Infection Prevention Product Review Worksheet
Update to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Healthcare Infection Control Practi...