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Essay / Article Analysis: Infection Control in Home Care
IntroductionThe article Infection Control in Home Care was written by Emily Rhinehart in April 2001. This article focuses on home care and infection control in the United States of America. This article indicates that over the past several decades, the scope and intensity of home care has increased, while strategies and solutions to prevent infection surveillance and control efforts have lagged (Rhinehart, 2001 ). The lack of applicable and consistent surveillance methods and prevention practices in acute care is necessary to control infections. The article helps to understand the appropriate strategy and the need for training to assess infectious diseases and their risks. In addition, the author also mentioned the development of prevention strategies (Rhinehart, 2001). Research Question/ProblemThis research study is based on a particular problem of measuring effective control in home care. The researcher developed some research questions to effectively conduct the research study. The research questions are: How can we provide high-tech home care to patient? What are the infection surveillance, prevention and control strategies in home care?Theoretical/conceptual basisThe Theoretical and conceptual foundation of the journal article was based on appropriate and sound academic literatures and concepts. Emily Rhinehart, the author of this review article, evaluated numerous literatures and concepts to answer the research questions. The researcher identified that 9,655 agencies in the United States provide home care to collected patients. The researcher gathered this data through Basic Home Care Statistics, Home Care Association, 1999 (Rhinehart, 2001). The search...... middle of article ......s. Thus, the researcher wants to say that, to carry out the study in the future, the evaluation of new studies and practices is essential.ReferencesEmori, TG, Culver, D., Horan, T. (1991). National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System (NNIS): Description of surveillance methods. Am J Infect Control, 19 (259-67). Garner, J., Jarvis, W.R., Emori, T.G., Horan, T., Hughes, J. (1988). CDC definitions for hospital-acquired infections. Am J Infect Control, 16, 28-40. Luehm, D., Fauerbach, L. (1999). The task force studies infection rates, surgical site management and Foley catheter infections. Caring, 18 (30-4). Rhinehart, E. (2001, March-April). Infection control in home care. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 7(2). Woomer, N., Long, C., Anderson, CO, Greenberg, EA (1999). Benchmarking Home Health Care: A Collaborative Approach. Kindness, 18(22-8).