Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control
in Health-Care Facilities
Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control
Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, GA 30333
2003
Suggested Citations:
Available from the CDC Internet Site:
The full-text version of the guidelines appears as a web-based document at the CDC’s
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion’s Internet site at:
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/enviro/guide.htm
The full-text version of the guidelines should be cited when reference is made primarily to
material in Parts I and IV. The print version of the guidelines appears as:
Sehulster LM, Chinn RYW, Arduino MJ, Carpenter J, Donlan R, Ashford D, Besser R,
Fields B, McNeil MM, Whitney C, Wong S, Juranek D, Cleveland J. Guidelines for
environmental infection control in health-care facilities. Recommendations from CDC and
the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Chicago IL;
American Society for Healthcare Engineering/American Hospital Association; 2004.
Part II of these guidelines appeared in the CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report:”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Guidelines for environmental infection control in
health-care facilities: recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices
Advisory Committee (HICPAC). MMWR 2003; 52 (No. RR-10): 1–48.
Updates to the Part II recommendations also appeared in the MMWR in 2003 as “Errata: Vol.
52 (No. RR-10)” (MMWR Vol. 52 [42]: 1025–6) on October 24, 2003 and as a “Notice to
Readers” scheduled to appear in February 2004. The full-text version of these guidelines (this
document) incorporates these updates.
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