IntroductionThe article Infection Control in Home Care was published by Emily Rhinehart in April 2001. This article is about home care and infection control in the United States of America. This article argues that, over the past few decades, the scope and intensity of home care has increased, while prevention strategies and solutions from infection surveillance and control efforts have lagged (Rhinehart, 2001). Lack of applicable and consistent methods for surveillance and prevention practices in acute care are required to control infections. The article provides an understanding of the appropriate strategy and training need for assessing infectious diseases and their risk. Furthermore, the author also emphasized the development of prevention strategies (Rhinehart, 2001). Research Question/Problem This research study is based on a particular problem of measuring effective control for home care. The researcher developed some research questions to conduct the research study effectively. The research questions are as follows: How can we provide high-tech home care to patients? What are the strategies for surveillance, prevention and control of infections in home care? Theoretical/Conceptual Foundation The theoretical and conceptual foundation of the journal article was based on appropriate and solid academic literatures and concepts. Emily Rhinehart, the author of this journal article, evaluated many literatures and concepts to answer the research questions. The researcher identified that 9655 agencies in the United States provide home care to patients collected from the data. The researcher collected this data through the Basic Home Care Statistics, Home Care Association, 1999 (Rhinehart, 2001). The research...... half of the document ......s. Therefore, the researcher wants to say that, to carry out the study in the future, the evaluation of new studies and practices is essential. References Emori, T. G., Culver, D., Horan, T. (1991). National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System (NNIS): Description of the surveillance methods. Am J Infect Control, 19(259-67).Garner, J., Jarvis, W.R., Emori, T.G., Horan, T., Hughes, J. (1988). CDC definitions for nosocomial infections. Am J Infect Control, 16, 28-40. Luehm, D., Fauerbach, L. (1999). The task force studies infection rates, surgical site management, and Foley catheter infections. Caring, 18 (30-4).Rhinehart, E. (2001, March-April). Infection control in home care. Emerging infectious diseases, 7(2). Woomer, N., Long, C., Anderson, C. O., Greenberg, E. A. (1999). Benchmarking in home health care: a collaborative approach. Thoughtful, 18(22-8).
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