Infectious Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities

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Contains the most recent guidelines to evaluate fever and infection in residents of long-term care environments. Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities provides numerous figures and tables for quick access to key conceptspresents methods to establish infection control programs offers techniques to combat drug-resistant organisms discusses modern procedures to avoid the spread of diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, herpes zoster, scabies, infectious diarrheas, and hepatitislists the most relevant and current references for each topicExploring topics critical to the improvement of managed care for the elderly, Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long-Term Care Facilities is a timely guide for geriatricians, gerontologists, primary care physicians, epidemiologists, virologists, physiologists, internists, pharmacists, nursing home directors and administrators, infection control practitioners, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.