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Infection Control in the Dialysis Settings Modules
- Resource Categories: NTDS and Project Firstline Learning.
Promoting Vaccine Confidence in the Pediatric Kidney Community
Vaccines are Safe for Kids with Kidney Disease 13 links
Promoting Vaccine Confidence in the Pediatric Kidney Community
- Resource Categories: NTDS and Quality, Assessment, Improvement, Education.
Leadership and Culture
Culture of Safety 5 links
- Creating a Culture of Safety: ESRD Toolkit
- Demonstration Project on the Impact of Safety Culture on Infection Control Practices in Hemodialysis
- Patient and Facility Safety in Hemodialysis: Opportunities and Strategies to Develop a Culture of Safety
- Promoting a Safety Culture at Dialysis Centers
- Systematic Literature Review of Safety Culture in Hemodialysis Settings
Leadership and Dialysis 6 links
- History of Leadership in Dialysis: Perspectives From Seasoned Leaders
- Infection Prevention and the Medical Director: Uncharted Territory
- Leading a Dialysis Organization: Role and Responsibilities of the Chief Medical Officer (Nephrologist Leadership in a Dialysis Provider Organization)
- Situational Leadership Model
- Systems Thinking and Leadership-How Nephrologists Can Transform Dialysis Safety to Prevent Infections
- What Leaders Really Do
Leadership and Culture
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
General Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidance
CDC 8 links
- Core Infection Prevention and Control Practices for Safe Healthcare Delivery in All Settings
- Dialysis Safety: Core Interventions
- Dialysis Safety Index
- Dialysis: Reducing Infections and Changing Culture (podcast)
- Discussion of Respiratory Protection Recommendations for Measles, Varicella, and Disseminated Zoster
- Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel
- Making Dialysis Safer for Patients: Tools to Prevent Infections in Hemodialysis (video)
- Transmission-Based Precautions
CMS 2 links
Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection 3 links
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) 1 link
Publications 6 links
- Essential Components of an Infection Prevention Program for Outpatient Hemodialysis Centers
- 100% Use of Infection Control Procedures in Hemodialysis Facilities: Call to Action
- Evolving Role of the Medical Director of a Dialysis Facility
- Infection control guidelines in hemodialysis facilities
- Leading the Dialysis Unit: Role of the Medical Director
- Maintaining Safety in the Dialysis Facility
Safe Injection Practices 4 links
Water Safety in Dialysis 3 links
General Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidance
- Resource Categories: Current & Emerging Threats (C-ET) and NTDS.
Bloodstream Infections
Vascular Access Infections 6 links
- Prevention of Bloodstream Infections in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis
- CDC Approach to BSI Prevention in Dialysis Facilities (i.e., the Core Interventions)
- Catheter-related blood stream infections in hemodialysis patients: a prospective cohort study
- Dialysis BSI Prevention Collaborative
- NHSN Tracking Infections in Outpatient Dialysis Facilities
- CDC Dialysis Safety: Core Interventions
Blood Culture Collection 1 link
Bloodstream Infections
- Resource Categories: Current & Emerging Threats (C-ET) and NTDS.
NTDS Events
Past Webinars 7 links
- Saving Lives and Saving Money: AI for Improvement in AKI (recorded June 7, 2022)
- ASN COVID-19 Roundtable: Outpatient Therapeutics Webinar (recorded February 11, 2022)
- Management of Clostridioides difficile Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis Settings (recorded Friday, September 24, 2021)
- Use of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment of Mild to Moderate SARS-COV-2 in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: A Kidney Community Conversation (recorded March 11, 2021)
- New Approaches to Transform Outcomes for Kidney Disease and Heart Disease in Patients with Diabetes (recorded Thursday, December 10, 2020)
- Goal-Directed Medical Therapies for Patients with Diabetic Kidney Disease (recorded Tuesday, September 29, 2020)
- Management of Diabetes & Kidney Disease through COVID-19 (recorded Tuesday, August 18, 2020)
From ASN eLearning Center 6 links
- NTDS Targeting Zero Infections Webinar Series: Human Factors Engineering and its Application to Dialysis (recorded Tuesday, September 17, 2019)
- Targeting Zero Infections: Hepatitis C Detection, Prevention, and Treatment (recorded Thursday, December 6, 2018)
- Targeting Zero Infections: Environmental Decontamination (recorded Tuesday, June 19, 2018)
- Targeting Zero Infections: Infectious Disease Reporting: State Requirements & Resources (recorded Thursday, March 29, 2018)
- Targeting Zero Infections: MDROs and Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Dialysis Facility (recorded Wednesday, September 27, 2017)
- Targeting Zero Infections: Where Do We Begin? (recorded Tuesday, May 23, 2017)
NTDS Events
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
Regulations
Federal Regulations 6 links
Regulations
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
NTDS Annual Reports
2017 1 link
2018 1 link
2019 1 link
2020 1 link
NTDS Annual Reports
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
Infection Prevention in the Dialysis Environment
Environmental Decontamination 13 links
- Surface Disinfection - policy example
- Dialysis Cleaning/Disinfection Template and Key
- Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients, 2001
- Environmental Surface Disinfection in Dialysis Facilities: Notes for Clinical Managers
- Days Since Last Bloodstream Infection Poster
- iPads, droids, and bugs: Infection prevention for mobile handheld devices at the point of care
- Continuing Education "Infection Prevention in Dialysis Settings" Training Course
- Guide to the Elimination of Infections in Hemodialysis, 2010
- Preventing Bloodstream Infections in Outpatient Hemodialysis: Best Practices for Dialysis Staff
- What You Should Know About Infectious Diseases: A Guide for Hemodialysis Patients and their Families
- Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
- Dialysis Station Routine Disinfection Checklist
- Dialysis Station Routine Disinfection Audit Tool
General Infection Prevention 9 links
- The Infection Prevention and Control in Dialysis Settings (2022)
- Excess Deaths Attributable to Influenza-Like Illness in the ESRD Population
- Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP)
- 4 Ways to Get Ahead of Sepsis
- Put Together the Pieces to Prevent Infections in Dialysis Patients
- Injection Safety: Medication Preparation & Administration Audit Tool
- Hemodialysis Injection Safety: Medication Administration Checklist
- Hemodialysis Injection Safety: Medication Preparation Checklist
- Safe Injection Practices - How to Do It Right
Hand Hygiene 19 links
- Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance Rates in the Haemodialysis Setting: More Thank Just More Hand Rubs
- iScrub App
- Global Handwashing Day: Oct. 15
- Hand Washing Stops Infections, So Why Do Health Care Workers Skip It?
- Your Roadmap to Engaging Patients & Families in Hand Hygiene
- Infection Control Today - National Handwashing Awareness Week
- Henry the Hand Foundation
- National Hand Washing Awareness Week
- International Infection Prevention Week: Oct. 15-21
- Clean Hands Count - Video
- Hand Hygiene - Education Courses
- How to Make Handwashing a Fun Experience For Patients in the Dialysis Unit
- Handwashing: Clean Hands Save Lives
- Hand Hygiene in Outpatient and Home-based Care and Long-term Care Facilities
- Bedside hand hygiene improves when extra healthcare workers are present, study shows
- Hopkins Hands: Hand Hygiene at JHM
- Evidence-Based Approaches to Hand Hygiene: Best Practices for Collaboration
- Hand Hygiene Audit Tool
- Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
Infection Prevention in the Dialysis Environment
- Resource Categories: Current & Emerging Threats (C-ET) and NTDS.
Identification and Treatment of Bloodborne Pathogens
Antimicrobial Stewardship 31 links
- Antimicrobial Use in Outpatient Hemodialysis Units, 2015
- Evaluating Infection Prevention Strategies in Out-Patient Dialysis Units Using Agent-Based Modeling, 2016
- What CDC is Doing: AR Solutions Initiative
- Key Investments to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
- American Hospital Association - Antimicrobial Stewardship
- National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Progress Report for Years 1 and 2
- National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, March 2015
- Presidential Message on Antibiotic Awareness Week, 2017
- Association Between Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices and Community-Associated Clostridium difficile Infection
- US emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events, 2013-2014
- Antibiotic prescribing for adults in ambulatory care in the USA, 2007-09.
- Dynamics of antibiotic prescribing for children.
- Office-Related Antibiotic Prescribing for Persons Aged ≤14 Years --- United States, 1993--1994 to 2007--2008
- Prevalence of Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions Among US Ambulatory Care Visits, 2010-2011.
- Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR)
- The Right Tool
- Antibiotic Prescribing and Use in Doctor's Offices - Community
- Redefining the Antibiotic Stewardship Team: Recommendations from the American Nurses Association/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Workgroup on the Role of Registered Nurses in Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Practices
- Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative
- Proposed risk factors for infection with multidrug-resistant pathogens in hemodialysis patients hospitalized with pneumonia
- Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013
- A Guide to Antibiotic Stewardship: Information for Patients & Families
- Microbial approaches for targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, 2017
- Variation in Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing in the United States
- Antimicrobial Use and Stewardship Programs Among Dialysis Centers, 2013
- Antibiotic Use in the United States, 2017: Progress and Opportunities
- AHA Physician Leadership Forum: Antimicrobial Stewardship & Toolkit
- Promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship in Human Medicine
- Practice Resources - Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
Hepatitis B & C 18 links
- Hepatitis C Testing and Monitoring Algorithm
- HCV Fact Sheet
- Hepatitis C: Information on Testing and Diagnosis
- A National Strategy for the Elimination of Hepatitis B and C: Phase Two Report
- Recommended Testing Sequence for Identifying Current Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection
- Interpretation of Hepatitis B Serologic Test Results
- The ABCs of Hepatitis
- Viral Hepatitis - Statistics
- Hepatitis Awareness Month and Testing Day — May 2017
- Hepatitis C FAQs for Health Professionals
- Combo Shows Promise for Hepatitis C Patients with Renal Disease
- New Therapies for Chronic Hepatitis B
- Viral-Associated GN: Hepatitis B and Other Viral Infections
- Testing for HCV Infection: An update of guidance for clinicians and laboratorians, 2013
- Viral Hepatitis - Hepatitis B Information
- Testing and Clinical Management of Health Care Personnel Potentially Exposed to Hepatitis C Virus — CDC Guidance, United States, 2020
- Draft update: Testing and Follow-up Information for Healthcare Personnel Potentially Exposed to Hepatitis C Virus
- Update to the Guideline for Infection Control in Heatlhcare Personnel, 1998 “Section 2”
MDROs 3 links
Threats 14 links
- Emerging Infections Programs
- CDC invests more than $200 million to help states respond to infectious disease threats
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Successful Delivery of RRT in Ebola Virus Disease
- Recommendations for Safely Performing Acute Hemodialysis in Patients with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in U.S. Hospitals
- Ebola Virus Disease and Blood Purification Techniques
- Ensuring healthcare workers’ safety in the management of Ebola virus disease: a novel competency assessment checklist for proper PPE use
- Preparing for renal replacement therapy in patients with the Ebola virus disease.
- Preparing for Serious Communicable Diseases in the United States: What the Ebola Virus Epidemic Has Taught Us
- For U.S. Healthcare Settings: Donning and Doffing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Evaluating Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) for Ebola Who Are Clinically Stable and Do Not Have Bleeding, Vomiting, or Diarrhea
- Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings, 2006
- Laboratory Testing for the Diagnosis of HIV infection- Recommendations, 2014
- Dialysis-Related Outbreaks
- Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in U.S. Hospitals
Identification and Treatment of Bloodborne Pathogens
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
HICPAC: Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
What is HICPAC? 2 links
HICPAC: Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
Data and Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement 4 links
Data and Quality Improvement
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
Education
Healthcare Personnel 5 links
Education
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
Collaboration and Partnerships
NKF 1 link
Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition 4 links
Renal Physicians Association (RPA) 1 link
State HAI Programs 1 link
ESRD Networks 2 links
Collaboration and Partnerships
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
Dialysis Access
Buttonhole Cannulation 1 link
AV Fistula/ AV Graft 4 links
Central Venous Catheter 12 links
- Management of the Hemodialysis Patient with Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection
- Initiating Dialysis with a Catheter, Catheter Exit Site Care
- Guidelines for Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infections, 2011
- CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR VASCULAR ACCESS, UPDATE 2006
- Hemodialysis Catheter Exit Site Care Checklist
- Catheter Exit Site Care Audit Tool
- Hemodialysis Central Venous Catheter Scrub-the-Hub Protocol
- Hemodialysis Catheter Connection Checklist
- Hemodialysis Catheter Disconnection Checklist
- Catheter Connection & Disconnection Audit Tool
- Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections Update
- Summary of Recommendations: Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-related Infections
Dialysis Access
- Resource Categories: NTDS.
