Consistent handwashing, staff immunizations, and common sense are the keys to preventing and controlling infections in an office practice, said Dr. Jerome O. Klein, a professor of pediatrics at Boston University.
Physicians in office practice have two obligations: to prevent patients from acquiring infections from sick health care workers and to prevent health care workers from acquiring infections from patients, Dr. Klein said in an interview.
He presented a review of infection prevention pointers at a conference on infectious diseases held in Cambridge, Mass.
Hand hygiene is a mainstay of any effective plan to both prevent and control infections in pediatric ...