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 concepts
• presents 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 hepatitis
• lists the most relevant and current references for each topic

Exploring 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.