Appendix E

Suggested Work Restrictions for Personnel

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Appendix E is Table 3 in the below guideline: Summary of suggested work restrictions for health care personnel

exposed to or infected with infectious diseases of concern in health care settings, in the absence of state and local

regulations (modified from ACIP recommendations*)

Source: Adapted from: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Guideline for infection control in health care

personnel, 1998. Am J Infect Control. 1998;26:299-301.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/guidelines/InfectControl98.pdf.

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Category IA: Strongly recommended for all hospitals and strongly supported by well-designed experimental or

epidemiologic studies.

Category IB: Strongly recommended for all hospitals and reviewed as effective by experts in the filed and a

consensus of Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee members on the basis of strong rationale and

suggestive evidence, even though definitive scientific studies have not been done.

Category II. Suggested for implementation in many hospitals. Recommendations may be supported by suggestive

clinical or epidemiologic studies, a strong theoretic rationale, or definitive studies applicable to some but not all

hospitals.

Adapted from: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Guideline for infection control in health care personnel,

1998. Am J Infect Control. 1998;26:299-301. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/guidelines/InfectControl98.pdf.

Accessed May 5, 2008.

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