Public Policy
- Support CDC tools to detect HAIs and target prevention efforts, APIC factsheet, May 7, 2013
- Joint Statement on Antibiotic Resistance from 25 National Health Organizations and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 13, 2012
- Influenza vaccination as a condition of employment for healthcare personnel, January 27, 2011
- The use of administrative data for HAI identification in hospitals, October 12, 2010
- Moving toward elimination of healthcare-associated infections: a call to action, a joint white paper between APIC, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 7, 2010
- Respiratory protection use in healthcare settings during disasters, December 4, 2009, (update to 2009 position)
- Healthcare personnel and risks for severe influenza illness, joint APIC/SHEA/American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine/IDSA statement, August 11, 2009
- Importance of surveillance technologies in HAI prevention, May 29, 2009
- Mandatory public reporting of HAIs, March 14, 2005
- Essentials of public reporting of HAIs, Healthcare-Associated Infection Working Group of the Joint Public Policy Committee toolkit
See a complete list of APIC’s position statements.
