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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee: Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting.

    Name: Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
    Time and Date: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., June 13, 1994. 8:30 a.m.-5 
p.m., June 14, 1994.
    Place: CDC, Auditorium B, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The committee is charged with providing advice and 
guidance to the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, the 
Director, CDC, and the Director, National Center for Infectious 
Diseases (NCID), regarding the practice of hospital infection 
control and strategies for surveillance, prevention, and control of 
nosocomial infections in U.S. hospitals and updating of guidelines 
and other policy statements regarding prevention of nosocomial 
infections.
    Matters to be Discussed: This is the fifth meeting of the 
Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. The agenda 
will include review of comments on the published draft of the CDC 
Guideline for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia, review of the 
final draft of the proposed revision of the CDC Guideline for 
Isolation Precautions in Hospitals, and review of the second draft 
of the proposed revision of the CDC Guideline for Prevention of 
Intravascular Infections; and an update on CDC activities of 
interest to the committee. Agenda items are subject to change as 
priorities dictate.
    Contact Person For More Information: Julia S. Garner, R.N., 
M.N., Nurse Consultant, Hospital Infections Program, NCID, CDC, 1600 
Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop A-07, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 
404/639-1552.

    Dated: April 29, 1994.
Robert L. Foster,
Assistant Director for Special Programs, Office of Program Support, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 94-10778 Filed 5-4-94; 8:45 am]
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