"Infection Control" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D017053
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.780.200.450
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Infection Control".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Infection Control" by people in this website by year, and whether "Infection Control" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1998 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 9 | 4 | 13 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2016 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2017 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 19 | 17 | 36 |
| 2021 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Infection Control" by people in Profiles.
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Managing External Urinary Catheters. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2024 Jun; 38(2):343-360.
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Stethoscope barriers narrative review; It's time for a strategy unfriendly to multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs). J Infect Public Health. 2024 Jun; 17(6):1001-1006.
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Single-Use vs Reusable Duodenoscopes: How Infection Knowledge Gaps Are Driving Environmental Harm and What Can Be Done. Gastroenterology. 2024 Aug; 167(3):426-431.
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Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 08; 44(8):1209-1231.
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Supplementary feeding and infection?control in pregnant adolescents-A secondary analysis of a randomized trial among malnourished women in Sierra Leone. Matern Child Nutr. 2023 01; 19(1):e13456.
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A new normal for the clinician's third hand: Stethoscope hygiene and infection prevention. Am J Infect Control. 2023 01; 51(1):114-118.
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Hospitalization characteristics and outcomes of patients with cancer and COVID-19 at a comprehensive cancer center. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Sep; 30(9):7783-7788.
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Contemporary Concise Review 2021: COVID-19 and other respiratory infections. Respirology. 2022 08; 27(8):661-668.
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Protecting hospitals from SARS-CoV-2 infection: A review-based comprehensive strategy for COVID-19 prevention and control. G Ital Med Lav Ergon. 2022 03; 44(1):32-40.
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Implantation of cardiac electronic devices in active COVID-19 patients: Results from an international survey. Heart Rhythm. 2022 02; 19(2):206-216.