Background Delivery of health care in the United States is undergoing profound logistic
changes, with a progressive shift of the burden of care from acute care facilities to …

Background Health care delivery in the United States has evolved significantly over the latter
part of the twentieth century. Health care delivery has moved from acute care facilities to …

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In the past, health care was delivered mainly in acute-care facilities. Today, health care is
delivered in hospital, outpatient, transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home …

Infection concerns in long-term care facilities include endemic infections, outbreaks, and
colonization and infection with antimicrobial-drug resistant microorganisms. Infection control …

Older adults receive care from various settings, including acute care hospitals, skilled
nursing facilities, nursing homes, group homes, outpatient primary care, specialty clinics …

The rapid shift in the delivery of healthcare from acute care settings to chronic care settings
has continued unabated. 1 Provision of care to an increasingly frail and elderly population in …

Managed-care organizations have a unique opportunity, still largely unrealized, to
collaborate with health-care providers and epidemiologists to prevent health care …

The majority of health care in the United States is provided in small, community hospitals,
not in large, academically affiliated tertiary care centers. The mean size of hospitals in the …

For the second time in a year, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology has chosen to
devote several articles to infection control issues in long-term-care facilities (LTCFs), either …