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The principle best-practice strategy elucidated within Louis DePaola's article entitled "Infection control in the dental office" is for practitioners to adhere to sanitary and hygiene mandates as noted within a pair of documents produced by the Centers for Disease Control. The first document is the Guide to Infection Prevention for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care (which was published in 2011), and the companion Infection Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings: Minimum Expectations for Safe Care. These documents have a number of specific measures for those working in dental offices to follow to reduce the incidence of healthcare associated infections (HAI).
In addition to denoting several of the key guidelines for practitioners to adhere to in order to ensure safety and reduce the rate of infection transmission, the author also reinforces several key facets of this literature that apply to dental office workers. One of these is the fact that the aforementioned literature was written for a variety of dental settings, and that adherents should apply the information within them to their respective settings (DePaola, 2012, p. 14). Also, it is noteworthy to consider the fact that the best practices outlined within the literature need to be complied with by all personnel all of the time (with each individual patient), and that a failure to do so compromises the risk of everyone who enters the practice. Finally, there are certain contingencies identified within this article for compliance failure, which include a host of corrective measures as well as sufficient warnings and contact of centers for the control of infections (De Paola, 2012, p. 14). All of the guidelines explicated within these two pieces of literature are based on empirical evidence, and should be followed as the minimum level of precautions taken.
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