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Appendix A: Selected Privacy Rule Concepts & Definitions

Appendix B: Sample Text-Clarify Public Health Issues under Privacy Rule

Wisconsin Chapters

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Employee Health Resources

  
• CDC Immunization of Health Care Workers, 1998
  
• Guidelines for IC in Health Care Personnel
  
• Ergonomics: Guidelines for Nursing Homes
  
• Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia
• Osborne Employee Health Benchmarking Data

Needle Stick Injury

• EPINet Data Base (FREE)- How to Order EPINet™ for Microsoft®
  email: EPINet@bd.com or call 1-800-647-5513
  
• Exposure to Blood (.pdf)
  
• Post Exposure Prophylaxis Hot Line at San Francisco General Hospital - 1.888.HIV.4911
• EpiNet Benchmarking Data

Skin Test Reading

• Tuberculin Skin Test (.pdf)

Immunization Web Sites

  
• How to Administer Intramuscular(IM)Injections
  
• CDC's National Immunization Program
  
• Health Care Worker Vaccinations Information
  
• Immunization Action Coalition
  
• Web Reporting - VAERS
  
• Vaccine Safety
  
• State Immunization laws & mandates
  
• Pregnancy & immunizations
  
• Immunization Action Coalition Educational Materials
  
• Vaccine Information Sheets
  
• State Immunization web sites
  
• Wisconsin Immunization Program
  
• Wisconsin Immunization Registry

Infection Control Guidelines

  
• Antimicrobial prophylaxis - ASHP
  
• Bioterrorism - Smallpox Preparedness To speak with someone at CDC - (888)246-2675
  
• CDC's Guidelines & Recommendations in Health-Care Settings
  
• Dental Infection Control Guidelines
  
• Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
  
• Hand Hygiene Guidelines
  
• Infection Control in Physicians' Office

Recommending Agencies

  
• American Thoracic Society
  
• Core Curriculum on TB
  
• Target TB Testing & Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
  
• American Thoracic Society Treatment Guidelines
  
• Assoc. for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
  
• American Institute of Architects
  
• Centers for Disease Control
  
• CDC Infection Control Guidelines
  
• Press release-Reduction of drug-resistant infections
  
• Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee(HICPAC)
  
• NIOSH
  
• National Center for HIV, STD & TB prevention
  
• Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Program
  
• Epidemiology Program Office

Regulatory Agencies

  
• EPA
  
• Disposal of Medical Waste
  
• Wisconsin DNR

Food & Drug Administration

  
• FDA
  
• Handbook of Foodborne Pathogens
  
• List of FDA Sterilants
  
• Re-use of Single-use Devices

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

  
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – Conditions of Participation

Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

  
• "Best" Bloodborne Pathogen Resource List
  
• Tuberculosis
  
• OSHA E-tools
  
• Specifics concerning WI OSHA consultation services

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