Publications

CDC conducts and supports research to monitor adherence to basic infection control practices in healthcare and inform health professionals, policy makers, the media, and the public about safe injection practices.

• Health Care–Associated Hepatitis C Virus Infections Attributed to Narcotic Diversionexternal icon
• Hepatitis B outbreak associated with a hematology-oncology office practice in New Jersey, 2009external icon
• Bacterial meningitis after intrapartum spinal anesthesia—New York and Ohio, 2008–2009
• Streptococcal meningitis following myelogram procedures.external icon Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 May; 28(5):614-7.
• Injection practices among clinicians in United States health care settingsexternal icon
• Assisted Monitoring of Blood Glucose: Special Safety Needs for a New Paradigm in Testing Glucose [PDF – 292 KB]external icon Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology September 2010
• Calling it ‘multidose’ doesn’t make it so: Inappropriate sharing and contamination of parenteral medication vials. pdf icon[PDF – 2 pages]external icon American Journal of Infection Control September 2010
• Infection Control Assessment of Ambulatory Surgical Centers
• US Outbreak Investigations Highlight the Need for Safe Injection Practices and Basic Infection Control pdf icon[PDF – 15 pages]external icon
• Nonhospital Health Care–Associated Hepatitis B and C Virus Transmission: United States, 1998–2008.external icon
• Abstracts that were presented at the 5th Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections 2010external icon
  • A review of hepatitis B and C virus infection outbreaks in healthcare settings, 2008-2009: Opening our eyes to viral hepatitis as a healthcare-associated infectionexternal icon
  • Case-control study of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in older adults: healthcare exposures contribute to burden of new infectionsexternal icon
  • Patient Notification for Bloodborne Pathogen Testing Due to Unsafe Injection Practices in U.S. Healthcare Settings, 1999–2009external icon
  • Bacterial and parasitic infections associated with extrinsically contaminated injectable medications, United States 1999-2009external icon
  • Staphylococcus aureus Infections Associated with Epidural Injections — West Virginia, 2009external icon