Preface; Contents; Contributors; Demographics and Economics of Long-Term Care; Evaluation of Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities Versus Acute Care Hospitals; Epidemiology and Special Aspects of Infectious Diseases in Aging; Impact of Age and Chronic Illness- Related Immune Dysfunction on Risk of Infections; Nutrition and Infection; Clinical Manifestations of Infections; Ethical Issues of Infectious Disease Interventions; Nursing Management of Infections; Establishing an Infection Control Program; Epidemiologic Investigation of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Summary
This volume addresses issues such as demographics, epidemiology, host resistance, clinical manifestations, nursing care, ethics, outbreak investigation and antimicrobial therapy
