Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities (Infectious Disease and Therapy)

By Joseph G. Ouslander and Thomas T. Yoshikawa

Book Overview

Contains the most recent guidelines to evaluate fever and infection in residents of long-term care environments. Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities provides numerous figures and tables for quick access to key concepts presents methods to establish infection control programs offers techniques to combat drug-resistant organisms discusses modern procedures to avoid the spread of diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, herpes zoster, scabies, infectious diarrheas, and hepatitis lists the most relevant and current references for each topic Exploring topics critical to the improvement of managed care for the elderly, Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities is a timely guide for geriatricians, gerontologists, primary care physicians, epidemiologists, virologists, physiologists, internists, pharmacists, nursing home directors and administrators, infection control practitioners, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824707842
• ISBN13: 9780824707842
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 10.0" x 8.0"