Guidelines for Preventing Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia, 2003
GUIDELINES FOR PREVENTING HEALTH-CARE-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA, 2003 Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Accessible version: https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/guidelines/pneumonia/index.html Prepared By: Ofelia C. Tablan, M.D.1 Larry J. Anderson, M.D.2 Richard Besser, M.D.3 Carolyn Bridges, M.D.2 Rana Hajjeh, M.D.3 1Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases , CDC 2Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, NCID, CDC 3Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, NCID, CDC The material in this report originated in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, James M. Hughes, M.D., Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Denise M. Cardo, M.D., Director, and the Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Mitchell L. Cohen, M.D., Director. HEALTHCARE INFECTION CONTROL PRACTICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE Chair: Robert A. Weinstein, M.D., Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois Co-Chair: Jane D. Siegel, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Executive Secretary: Michele L. Pearson, M.D., CDC, Atlanta, Georgia Members: Raymond Y.W. Chinn, M.D., Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California; Alfred DeMaria, Jr., M.D., Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts; Elaine L. Larson, R.N., Ph.D., Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York; James T. Lee, M.D.,Ph.D., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; Ramon E. Moncada, M.D.,Coronado Physician’s Medical Center Coronado, California; William A. Rutala, Ph.D.; University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; William E.
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