Infection Prevention: Summary
Many infections that affect long-term care residents are potentially preventable
- Hand hygiene is the single easiest and most cost-effective method of preventing transmission of pathogens in health care facilities
- Influenza vaccinationof both long-term care residents and health care workers has been shown to dramatically decrease overall mortality.
- Pneumococcal vaccination is effective in decreasing complications of this disease.
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