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The following are links to guidelines, policies and standards that infection control professions may use to support their own documentation and best practices.

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DATE	POLICY/GUIDELINE
CHICA-CANADA
2008	APIC-CHICA-Canada infection control and epidemiology: Professional and Practice Standards
PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA (PHAC)
1997	Canadian Contingency Plan for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Other Related Diseases
2006	Canadian Immunization Guide (7th edition)
2006	Canadian Guidelines on Sexually Transmitted Infections
2007	Canadian Tuberculosis Standards (6th edition)
2002	Classic Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease in Canada
2001	Construction-related Nosocomial Infections in Patients in Health Care Facilities
1997	Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance - An Integrated Action Plan for Canadians
1997	Foot Care by Health Care Providers
1995	Guidelines for Establishment of a Post-exposure Notification Protocol for Emergency Responders
1992	Guidelines for the Identification, Investigation and Treatment of Individuals with Concomitant Tuberculosis and HIV Infection
2006	Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease
1996	Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Canadian Health Care Facilities and Other Institutional Settings
2006	Guidelines for Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease
1998	Handwashing, Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization in Health Care
1999	Hepatitis C - Prevention and Control: A Public Health Concensus
1999	Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Personal Services: Tattooing, Ear/Body Piercing, and Electrolysis
1997	An Integrated Protocol to Manage Health Care Workers Exposed to Bloodborne Pathogens
2004	Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines - 3rd edition
1997	Preventing Infections Associated with Indwelling Intravascular Access Devices
2002	Prevention and Control of Occupational Infections in Health Care
1997	Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in Canada
1997	Preventing the Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens in Health Care and Public Service Settings
1999	Routine Practices and Additional Precautions for Preventing the Transmission of Infection in Health Care
U.S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
1999	Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories – 4th edition
1997	Control and Prevention of Meningococcal Disease (oubreak management)
2001	Epidemic/Epizootic West Nile Virus in the United States: Revised Guidelines for Surveillance, Prevention and Control
2007	Essentials of Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections: A Tool Kit
2008	Guidance for Control of Infections with Carbapenem-Resistant or Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Acute Care Facilities
2008	Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
2003	Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
2002	Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings
2003	Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings
1998	Guideline for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel
2007	Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007
2001	Guidelines for Management of Occupational Exposures to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis
2005	Guidelines for Management of Occupational Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis (Updated)
2005	Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings
2009	Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections
2002	Guideline for Prevention of Intravascular Device-Related Infections
2003	Guideline for Preventing Health-Care-Associated Pneumonia
2000	Guideline for Preventing Opportunistic Infections Among Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
1999	Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection
1997	Healthcare Worker Immunizations
2000	Infection Control in Dentistry - Bloodborne Disease Transmission
2000	Infection Control in Dentistry - Airborne Disease Transmission
2005	Infection Control Guidance for the Prevention and Control of Influenza in Acute-Care Facilities
2007	Infection Control Measures for Preventing and Controlling Influenza Transmission in Long-Term Care Facilities
2006	Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings, 2006
1995	Recommendations for Preventing the Spread of Vancomycin Resistance
2001	Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients
1987	Recommendations for Prevention of HIV Transmission in Health-Care Settings
1996	Selection and Use of Particulate Respirators
2004	Workbook for Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating a Sharps Injury Prevention Program
ASSOCIATION FOR PROFESSIONALS IN INFECTION CONTROL (APIC)
1999	APIC/CHICA-Canada infection control and epidemiology: Professional and practice standards
2007	Definitions for surveillance of infections in home health care
2008	Infection prevention and control in the long-term care facility
2002	Guideline for hand Hygiene in Health-care Settings: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force
1999	Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection
1996	Guideline for Selection and Use of Disinfectants
2008	Guidelines for animal-assisted interventions in health care facilities
2008	Infection prevention and control in the long-term care facility
2000	Multi-society Guideline for Reprocessing Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes
2007	Recommended practices for surveillance: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Inc.
1997	Requirements for infrastructure and essential activities of infection control and epidemiology in out-of-hospital settings: A Consensus Panel report.
2008	Reuse of Respiratory Protection in Prevention and Control of Epidemic- and Pandemic-prone Acute Respiratory Diseases (ARD) in Healthcare
2000	Role of Infection Control During Construction in Health Care Facilities
2009	Safe Injection, Infusion and Medication Vial Practices in Healthcare
1997	Use of Scrubs and Related Apparel in Health Care Facilities
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES (ACIP)
2008	Human Rabies Prevention
1997	Immunization of Health-Care Workers:Recommendations of ACIP and HICPAC
2008	Prevention and Control of Influenza
2000	Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease
2008	Prevention of Herpes Zoster
2008	Prevention of Pertussis, Tetanus and Diphtheria Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women and their Infants
1996	Prevention of Plague
1997	Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease
1996	Prevention of Varicella
1990	Protection against Viral Hepatitis
2002	General Recommendations on Immunization
1994	Typhoid Immunization - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
2001	Vaccinia (Smallpox) Vaccine Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
2002	Yellow Fever Vaccine Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)

PROVINCIAL
Source	Date	Policy/Guideline
BC - CPSBC	2004	Guidelines for Infection Prevention and Control in the Physician's Office
BC - PICNeT	2008	Antibiotic Resistant Organisms Prevention and Control Guidelines
BC - PICNeT	2009	Respiratory Outbreak Prevention and Control Guidelines
BC - PICNeT	2009	Providing Health Care to the Client Living in the Community
Alberta Health & Wellness	2007	Provincial MRSA Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines
Alberta Health & Wellness	2008	Medical Device Cleaning Standards
Alberta Health & Wellness	2008	MRSA Standards
Alberta Health & Wellness	2008	Standards for Single-Use Medical Devices
Manitoba Health	2006	Clostridium difficile-Associated Diseases (CDAD) Infection Control Guidelines
Manitoba Health	2000	Guidelines for Infection Prevention and Control in Endoscopy
Manitoba Health	2003	Integrated Post-Exposure Protocol: Guidelines for Managing Exposures to Blood/Bodily Fluids
Manitoba Health	2003	Infection Control Guidelines for Health Care Workers in the Community
Manitoba Health	2007	Manitoba Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (AROs)
Ontario MOHLTC	2006	Best Practices for Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization in all Health Care Facilities
Ontario MOHLTC	2009	Best Practices for Hand Hygiene in all Health Care Facilities
Ontario MOHLTC	2007	Best Practices for Infection Prevention and Control of Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococci in All Health Care Settings
Ontario MOHLTC	2009	Best Practices for the Management of Clostridium difficile in all Health Care Settings
Ontario MOHLTC	2008	Best Practices for Infection Prevention and Control Programs in Ontario in All Health Care Settings
Ontario MOHLTC	2008	Best Practices for Surveillance of Health Care-Associated Infections in Patient and Resident Populations
Ontario MOHLTC	2006	Best Practices in Surveillance and Infection Prevention and Control for Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI), excluding Tuberculosis, for all Ontario Health Care Settings
Ontario MOHLTC	2009	Infection Prevention and Control Best Practices for Personal Services Settings
Ontario MOHLTC	2009	Infection Prevention and Control Best Practices for STI Case Management and Contact Tracing
Ontario MOHLTC	2009	Routine Practices and Additional Precautions in All Health Care Settings
Ontario MOHLTC	2010	Best Practices for Environmental Cleaning for Prevention and Control of Infections in All Health Care Settings
Ontario CPSO	2004	Infection Control in the Physician's Office
Ontario RCDSO	2009	Infection Prevention and Control in the Dental Office
Newfoundland/ Labrador	2009	Guideline for Routine Practices and Additional Precautions

OTHER
Source	Date	Policy/Guideline
AIA	2006	Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities
ASM	2004	Infection Control in Cystic Fibrosis
CCAR	2006	Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA): A Perspective for Canadian Health Care Practitioners
CCAR	2007	Infection Prevention and Control Best Practices for Long Term Care, Home and Community Care including Health Care Offices and Ambulatory Clinics
NHS	2003	Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Agents: Safe Working and the Prevention of Infection (Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens - U.K.)
SHEA	1995	An Approach to the Evaluation of Quality Indicators of the Outcome of Care in Hospitalized Patients, With a Focus on Nosocomial Infection Indicators
SHEA	1996	Antimicrobial Resistance in Long-Term-Care Facilities
SHEA	1996	Antimicrobial Use in Long-Term-Care Facilities
SHEA	1997	Guidelines for the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals
SHEA	1998	Requirements for Infrastructure and Essential Activities of Infection Control and Epidemiology in Hospitals: A consensus Panel Report
SHEA/APIC	1997	Infection Prevention and Control in the Long-Term-Care Facility
SHEA/APIC	2002	Guideline for hand Hygiene in Health-care Settings: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force
WHO	2009	WHO Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care

DRAFT GUIDELINES FOR REVIEW
Source	Date	Policy/Guideline
PHAC	2003	Infection Control Guidance in a Non-Outbreak Setting, (In the Absence of SARS) When an Individual Presents to a Health Care Institution With a Respiratory Infection
PHAC	2003	Infection Control Guidance if there is a SARS Outbreak Anywhere in the World, When an Individual Presents to a Health Care Institution With a Respiratory Infection