CDC

Abbreviation Safety and Compliance

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: the federal public health agency whose guidelines cover isolation precautions and hand hygiene.

Sources

• Siegel JD, Rhinehart E, Jackson M, Chiarello L, HICPAC. 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings. Am J Infect Control 2007;35(10 Suppl 2):S65-S164 (PMC7119119) · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / HICPAC (PubMed Central copy)
• Boyce JM, Pittet D. Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: Recommendations of the HICPAC and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. MMWR 2002;51(RR-16) · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (MMWR; read via Internet Archive copy)

Free practice questions that use CDC

• Processing, question 1On her first day in a hospital lab, a phlebotomist hears a technologist call a result a "panic value." Which description fits that term?
• Processing, question 2A clinic's example policy calls a POC glucose below 50 mg/dL critical and says to repeat a critical result once before calling. The first…
• Processing, question 4A clinic sends a specimen to a reference lab to confirm a waived test result. What should the clinic's records link?

Related terms

• hand hygieneCleaning hands with alcohol-based rub or soap and water. Wash with soap and water when hands are visibly…
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• CAPCollege of American Pathologists: a CMS-approved accreditor whose Laboratory Accreditation Program sends…
• ccCubic centimeter. Error-prone (ISMP): it can be misread as u (units). Write mL for blood and specimen volumes.
• CLIAClinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments: federal law covering any site that tests human specimens. A site…
• CLSIClinical and Laboratory Standards Institute: a nonprofit that writes consensus lab standards, such as GP41…
• CPRCardiopulmonary resuscitation: emergency care for cardiac arrest. Push hard and fast in the center of the…
• CVACerebrovascular accident: the medical name for a stroke.

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