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Preview 3100  H1N1 Update: Current CDC Guidance for Prevention and Control     
1100  Achieving Daily and Pandemic Surge Capacity     
1101  Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC)     
1102  Contact Isolation Precautions: Benefit and Burden     
1103  Surgical Site Infections: Trials and Tribulations   
1104  The Science of Compliance: Helping Healthcare Workers Do What They Know They Should     
1105  The Department of Veterans Affairs' Administration's (VA's) National MRSA Prevention Initiative: The Journey Continues     
1300  Can Infection Preventionists Take the Lead in Providing a Cleaner Yet Greener Environment?     
1301  Preventing Electronic Equipment from Becoming an Infection Problem (APIC Indiana Chapter 076)     
1302  Reducing Infection Risks and Improving Patient Safety in Ambulatory Care     
1303  Review of Controversies in Infection Prevention Literature     
1304  Targeting Zero: The IP as a Change Agent     
1305  Drug Resistant TB     
1400  Clostridium difficilein the United Kingdom     
1401  Getting to Zero Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: It's About Teamwork     
1402  Managing MRSA in Long-Term-Care Facilities     
1403  Preventing Infections Through Informatics     
1404  Stopping Upper Respiratory Infections and Flu in the Family: The Stuffy Trial     
1405  The Prevention of MDRO Transmission in Behavioral Health Settings     
1406  The Role of Biofilm in Healthcare-Associated Infections     
1407  Traffic Patterns in the OR: Has It Become A Super Highway?     
1408  Understanding the Business Case for Infection Prevention & Control     
2000  Elaine Larson Lectureship: Patient Safety in the OR through the Continuum     
2100  Health and Human Services Action Plan Update     
2300-1  Device-Related Infections: Reduction in Hospital Acquired Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLA-BSI) in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Population - A Nine Year Experience      
2300-2  Device-Related Infections: Infection Risk Associated with a Luer-Activated Device LAD      
2300-3  Device-Related Infections: Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections: The Associated Length of Stay and Costs      
2300-4  Device-Related Infections: A Simple Tool to Help Reduce Duration of Indwelling Urinary Catheters      
2301-1  Infection Prevention Programs: Preventing Mediastinitis: Success with the SCIP Bundle and Evidence Based Best Practices      
2301-2  Infection Prevention Programs: Staffing and Structure of Infection Prevention and Control Programs in a National Sample of NHSN Hospitals      
2301-3  Infection Prevention Programs: Using Objective Benchmarking to Improve Environmental Hygiene in a Five Hospital Group      
2301-4  Infection Prevention Programs: Open Disscusion With Presenters   
2302-1  MDRO: Increasing Healthcare Worker Compliance with Contact Precautions      
2302-2  MDRO: Policies and Practices for Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in a National Sample of NHSN Hospitals      
2302-3  MDRO: A Sensitive Screening Marker for the Identification of Multi-Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli: Using Resistance to Imipenem or Cefepime as a Predictor      
2302-4  MDRO: The Role of Environmental Services in a Collaborative Infection Prevention Model to Reduce Clostridium difficile in the Greater New York Region      
2303-1  Safety: Protection Offered by Filtering Facepiece Particulate Respirators and Surgical Masks: Lessons from Manikin and Human Subject Studies      
2303-2  Safety: Drive Through to Kill the Flu - Community Outreach Influenza Vaccination Program     
2303-3  Safety: Infection Prevention and Control Competencies for Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers      
2303-4  Safety: Needling Employees into Compliance: Improving Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Rates Through the Use of Time Off Awards     
2304-1  Surveillance: The Effect of Changing the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition of Laboratory-Confirmed Bloodstream Infection (LCBI)      
2304-2  Surveillance: Surveillance for the Purpose of Discontinuing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Contact Precautions on an Inpatient Medical Unit: An Exercise in Futility?      
2304-3  Surveillance: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Reduction Using Best Practice Bundle      
2400  A Novel Approach to Reduction of Central Line Days     
2401  Collaborative Strategies to Eliminate Healthcare-Associated Influenza: Immunization, as a Condition of Employment     
2402  Disaster Planning for Pregnant and Birthing Mothers and their Newborns     
2403  Exploring the Ethics of Isolation and Quarantine: A Visit with Typhoid Mary     
2404  Going Beyond the Double Doors: Collaborating with the Anesthesia Department     
2405  IFIC Presentation: Avian Influenza in Egypt-Epidemic & Pandemic Awareness and Response     
2406  Raising the Bar in Sterility Assurance     
2407  Role of Decolonization for S. aureus in Healthcare and Community Settings: Summary of a CDC-Sponsored Experts' Meeting     
2500  Surveillance Definitions   
3200  National Patient Safety Goals and Other Initiatives Related to Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention     
3300  Eliminate Healthcare-Associated Infections: Strategies for Success     
3500  Infection Prevention and Control in Dialysis     
3501  Mock Deposition - Rising Tide of HAI Lawsuits     
3502  Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms: It's Not Just About MRSA     
3503  The Continuing Story: Eliminating MRSA in the Netherlands     
3504  The Unique Challenges of Pediatric Populations     
3505  The Use of Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Room Decontamination in the Management of an Outbreak of Multi-Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii     
3506  What Every IP Needs to Know When Doing Rounds in the Sterile Processing Department     
3507  HICPAC Update     
3800  Accelerating Performance Improvement Through The Power of Collaboration     
3801  APIC's Pace of Progress: MRSA Elimination Guide     
3802  CDC Outbreaks     
3803  HIV Screening Implementation in Acute Care Settings   
3804  Implementing Change by Embracing a Collegial Process: How Do Infection Preventionists Effectively Communicate with their Surgical Colleagues?     
3805  Navigating and Charting the Political Landscape     
3806  Utilizing Product Evaluation Effectively to Promote Infection Prevention and Control     
3900  Childbirth Issues for Women and Children in Underserved Populations: Role for Infection Prevention and Epidemiology     
3901  Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Collaboratives     
3902  Healthcare Personnel Vaccination     
3903  Infection Control Implications of Pet Therapy and Service Animals in Healthcare Facilities     
3904  Infection Prevention Strategies for Eliminating Mediastinitis Surgical Site Infections     
3905  Mandated Infection Prevention and Control Staffing Ratios in New Jersey     
3906  Reduction of the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated MRSA in a 240-Bed Community Hospital by Eliminating Use of Contact Precautions     
3907  Why Infection Preventionists Don't Use PDSA (Plan Do Study Act) Cycles     
4000  The APIC Clostridium difficle U.S. Prevalence Study Results     
4100  Designing Infection Prevention into the Environment     
4300  Patient Safety and Just Culture     
4400  Healthcare 2019: Collaborative Approaches to Healthcare Challenges in the Decade Ahead     
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2008 CMS Sessions

04  Risk Assessment and Program Priorities 
05  Taking a Closer Look: Surgical Site Infections 
06  Taking a Closer Look: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) 
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2008 Clostridium difficile Conference

010  The Changing Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile Infection 
050  The Importance of Surveillance 
060  Identification and Diagnosis 
100  Clostridium difficile Challenges and Issues in Special Care Facilities 
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