infection control

Preferred Label : infection control;

MeSH definition : Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.;

MeSH synonym : control, infection;

MeSH annotation : differentiate from COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL which tends to be on a large geog, demog or social level (e.g., city, underprivileged, elementary school, prison) while INFECTION CONTROL tends to be restricted within hosp or other health care facilities; if in doubt, use term of author; DF: INFECT CONTROL; differentiate from COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL which tends to be on a large geographic, demographic or social level (e.g., city, underprivileged, elementary school, prisons) while INFECTION CONTROL tends to be restricted within health care facilities;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection control;

Details

Origin ID

D017053;

UMLS CUI

C0085557;

Allowable qualifiers
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Family History of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [NCIt concept]
- Infection Prevention [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Infection control [HPMULTI term]
- Infection control education (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Infection control management (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Infection precautions surveillance (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Infection prevention education (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [NCIt concept]
- Percutaneous coronary intervention (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Peritoneal Cancer Index [NCIt concept]
- Plasma Serine Protease Inhibitor [NCIt concept]
- Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation [NCIt concept]
- SERPINA5 wt Allele [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Infection control procedure (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- infection control [MedlinePlus Topic]
MeSH Descriptor(s) used for indexing
- Infections [MeSH Descriptor]
MedlinePlus topic(s)
- infection control [MedlinePlus Topic]
Metaterm(s)
- infectious disease medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- infection control [MeSH concept]
See also
- communicable disease control [MeSH Descriptor]
- cross infection [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- Infections [MeSH Descriptor]
- disease transmission, infectious [MeSH Descriptor]
- infection control practitioners [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Infection control procedure (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- infection control [MedlinePlus Topic]
- infection control procedure, nos [SNOMED Notion]

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