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Manual of infection control procedures, 2nd edition
Journal of Hospital Infection (2006) 64, 201
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BOOK REVIEW Manual of infection control procedures, 2nd edition Damani NM. Greenwich Medical Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84110-257-1, £29.50 This is the second edition of a book, first issued in 1997, that has been revised and updated against a background in which healthcare-associated infections and their control (or lack of) have assumed a prominence in the minds of political and healthcare managers. The emergence of new diseases (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Clostridium difficile-associated disease) and reemergence of old favourites (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, tuberculosis) have ensured a media frenzy. Putting these factors together in the UK has ensured an increase in professional and well-trained staff who have more resources available than in the past. However, the increased movement of patients between communities and hospitals, between hospitals, and between wards in a hospital means that healthcare-associated infections and their control will always be a challenge for everyone involved in the provision of health services.
doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2006.05.004
This book contains a wealth of updated, but still essentially practical, advice for medical and nursing staff alike. There are four new chapters entitled ‘Principles of infection control’, ‘Design and management of healthcare facilities’, ‘Epidemiology and biostatistics’ and ‘Infection control information resources’. Of these, the two I found most interesting were ‘Epidemiology and biostatistics’ e an area one tends to forget, but managers do so like figures, whatever they mean. Also the chapter on ‘Infection control information resources’ gives a wealth of web addresses relating to journals, professional bodies and regulatory bodies, together with a list of 71 textbooks. In summary, I believe this to be an important addition to the resources available to infection control teams and other clinical and management personnel interested and involved in healthcareassociated infection, which is, de facto, now a fact of life in healthcare establishments worldwide. R.C. Spencer Health Protection Agency, Bristol, UK E-mail address: robert.spencer@ ubht.swest.nhs.uk Available online 7 August 2006
www.elsevierhealth.com/journals/jhin
BOOK REVIEW Manual of infection control procedures, 2nd edition Damani NM. Greenwich Medical Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84110-257-1, £29.50 This is the second edition of a book, first issued in 1997, that has been revised and updated against a background in which healthcare-associated infections and their control (or lack of) have assumed a prominence in the minds of political and healthcare managers. The emergence of new diseases (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Clostridium difficile-associated disease) and reemergence of old favourites (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, tuberculosis) have ensured a media frenzy. Putting these factors together in the UK has ensured an increase in professional and well-trained staff who have more resources available than in the past. However, the increased movement of patients between communities and hospitals, between hospitals, and between wards in a hospital means that healthcare-associated infections and their control will always be a challenge for everyone involved in the provision of health services.
doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2006.05.004
This book contains a wealth of updated, but still essentially practical, advice for medical and nursing staff alike. There are four new chapters entitled ‘Principles of infection control’, ‘Design and management of healthcare facilities’, ‘Epidemiology and biostatistics’ and ‘Infection control information resources’. Of these, the two I found most interesting were ‘Epidemiology and biostatistics’ e an area one tends to forget, but managers do so like figures, whatever they mean. Also the chapter on ‘Infection control information resources’ gives a wealth of web addresses relating to journals, professional bodies and regulatory bodies, together with a list of 71 textbooks. In summary, I believe this to be an important addition to the resources available to infection control teams and other clinical and management personnel interested and involved in healthcareassociated infection, which is, de facto, now a fact of life in healthcare establishments worldwide. R.C. Spencer Health Protection Agency, Bristol, UK E-mail address: robert.spencer@ ubht.swest.nhs.uk Available online 7 August 2006