There are a variety of web sites that provide information on hospital infections and the five most common types of hospital infections. For more information, please visit:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Infection Control in Healthcare Settings

  The Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP), protects patients, protects healthcare personnel, and promotes safety, quality, and value in the healthcare delivery system by providing national leadership for nine key areas.

• Medline Plus – Infection Control

  Information from the National Library of Medicine about infection control, including hospital infections.

• Hospitalinfection.org (RID)

  RID is a not-for-profit educational campaign committed to correcting the national problem of hospital infections.

• Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) – Hospital-Acquired Infections in Pennsylvania 2006

  The Council is an independent state agency formed under Pennsylvania statute (Act 89,as amended by Act 14) in order to address rapidly growing health care costs.

• Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI)

  The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, or PRHI, is an independent catalyst for improving healthcare safety and quality in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It operates on the premise that dramatic quality improvement is the best cost-containment strategy for health care.

• APIC

  Based in Washington, DC, APIC is a 12,000 member global healthcare organization dedicated to improving patient safety by reducing infection. APIC's infection preventionists develop and direct infection prevention programs that save lives and improve the bottom line for hospitals and other healthcare facilities. PreventInfection.org is a consumer information site for patients and their families and includes methods to prevent infection such as hand hygiene, news, resources and links to information. Their main site is www.APIC.org - with information, tools and resources for members and non-members involved professionally in preventing infection.