Web Alert
December 1, 1999 2 minutes read
Web Alert
Sites offer information on infection control, toxicology
By Geoff Kelafant, MD, MSPH, FACOEM
There are a number of Web sites that give employee health service professionals news and information on toxicology, infection control, and hospital employee health services in general. Many of these sites provide continuing education credits as well. Following are some of those sites:
• The National Antimicrobial Information Net work, at ace.orst.edu/info/nain/, provides information on a number of antimicrobials, including Environmental Protection Agency documents, links to other databases, and general information regarding these chemicals. The site is useful for employee education and also in choosing and/or substituting antimicrobials. It doesn't have a link to the National Library of Medicine toxicology databases, so if you can't find what you're looking for, try toxnet.nlm.nih.gov.
• The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Web site, at www.apic.org/html/resc/guidlist.html, includes guidelines, state-of-the-art reports, position statements, and standards in the area of infection control. Most of the documents on this page are free and can be downloaded, though a few must be purchased from APIC. There are extensive links to other parts of the APIC site, as well as external links to other resources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• "Prevention of Hepatitis A Through Active or Passive Immunization: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)," at www2.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_rr.html, was recently issued by the CDC. As with many of the recent CDC/MMWR documents, free on-line CME/CNE/CEU is available for reading this document. The above link includes other recent MMWR documents, many of which also have free continuing education credits.
• Also, "Healthcare Workers: Protecting Those Who Protect Our Health," at www.slackinc.com/ general/iche/stor0697/edit.htm, gives you the full text of an article from Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, June 1997, co-written by Linda Rosenstock, director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. It provides a brief historical retrospective and analysis of the state of affairs in hospital employee health.
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