Guidelines and Guidance Library

Infection control guidelines and recommendations for healthcare settings.

Infection prevention and control

CDC's Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings

Disinfection and Sterilization Guideline

Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities (2008)

Environmental Infection Control Guidelines

Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities (2003)

Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings (2002)

Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings (2002)

Isolation Precautions Guideline

Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings (2007)

Standard Precautions for All Patient Care

Standard precautions make use of common sense practices to prevent the spread of infection in health...

Transmission-Based Precautions

Transmission-based precautions are used when patients already have confirmed or suspected infections...

Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel

Part I. Infrastructure and Routine Practices for Occupational Infection Prevention and Control Services

Part II: Epidemiology and Control of Selected Infections Transmitted Among Healthcare Personnel and Patients

Healthcare personnel (HCP)-specific

Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)-Infected Healthcare Personnel

HBV Protection and Postexposure Management

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Testing and Clinical Management of Health Care Personnel Potentially Exposed to Hepatitis C Virus — CDC Guidance, United States, 2020

MMWR. Recommendations and Reports / Vol. 69 / No. 6 / P. 1–8

HIV Occupational Exposure Management

Vaccines for Healthcare Personnel

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Medical devices

Intravascular Catheter-related Infection (BSI) Prevention Guidelines

Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections (2011)

Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Prevention Guideline

Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (2009)

Medical procedures

Organ Transplantation Infection Prevention Guideline

Organ Transplantation Guidelines

Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention Guideline

Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection (2017)

Diseases and organisms

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

See infection prevention and control (IPC) guidance and practices for healthcare personnel when cari...

Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia Prevention Guideline

Guideline for Preventing Health Care-Associated Pneumonia (2003)

Interim Guidance for Infection Control Within Healthcare Settings When Caring for Confirmed Cases, Probable Cases, and Cases Under Investigation for Infection with Novel Influenza A Viruses Associated with Severe Disease

Interim Guidance for Infection Control Within Healthcare Settings When Caring for Patients with Conf...

Influenza (seasonal)

Prevention Strategies for Seasonal Influenza in Healthcare Settings - CDC

Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Measles in Healthcare Settings

Interim infection prevention and control recommendations for measles in healthcare settings.

Mpox Infection Control

Prevention and Control for Hospitalized MERS Patients

Infection control procedures to prevent transmission of MERS-CoV in hospitals.

MDRO Containment Strategy

Containment strategies for novel or targeted multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).

Multidrug-resistant Organisms (MDRO) Management Guidelines

This guideline provides recommendations for management of multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcar...

MDRO Prevention Strategies

Prevention strategies against the spread of novel or targeted multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs).

Norovirus Prevention and Control Guidelines for Healthcare Settings

Guideline for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Healthcare Settin...

Smallpox Pre-event Vaccination

Tuberculosis Infection Control

Health care settings should have a tuberculosis infection control plan.

Preventing Transmission of Viral Respiratory Pathogens in Healthcare Settings

Infection control measures to prevent all viral respiratory infections in healthcare settings.

Setting-specific

Infection Prevention and Control in Dental Settings

Learn about CDC's guidelines and resources on infection prevention practices in dental settings.

Dialysis – Parenteral Medication Vials

Dialysis – Preventing Infections

Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients (2001)...

Dialysis – Vaccinating & Chronic Kidney Disease

Prevention and Control of Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: Central Line-associated Blood Stream Infections

Guidelines to prevent and control central line-associated blood stream infections in NICU patients.

NICU:S. aureus Prevention and Control Recommendations

Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Patients: S...

Basic Infection Control and Prevention Plan for Outpatient Oncology Settings

Guideline reviews

CDC and a group of experts outside of the federal government assisted in creating several of the guideline listed above. This group also would, historically, review guidelines and evaluate them based on available evidence. Examples are included below.

C. difficile in NICU Patients: A Systematic Review

This systematic review is designed to evaluate the available evidence on C. difficile in the NICU. T...

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Appendix. C. difficile in NICU Patients: A systematic Review

This appendix to HICPAC's systematic review is designed to evaluate the available evidence on C. dif...

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