[Federal Register: February 18, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 32)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee

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

    Name: Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee 
meeting.
    Times and Dates:
8:30 a.m.--5 p.m., March 4, 2004.
8:30 a.m.--4 p.m., March 5, 2004.

    Place: Westin Peachtree Plaza, 210 Peachtree St. NW., Atlanta, 
GA 30303.
    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: (1) The practice of hospital infection 
control; (2) strategies for surveillance, prevention, and control of 
infections (e.g., nosocomial infections), antimicrobial resistance, 
and related events in settings where healthcare is provided; and (3) 
periodic updating of guidelines and other policy statements 
regarding prevention of healthcare-associated infections and 
healthcare-related conditions.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include an overview 
of issues related to public reporting of nosocomial infection rates; 
healthcare preparedness; influenza (avian and human); infection 
control in ambulatory care settings; strategies for surveillance of 
healthcare-associated infections; and updates on CDC activities of 
interest to the committee.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    For Further Information Contact: Michele L. Pearson,M.D., 
Executive Secretary, HICPAC, Division of Healthcare Quality 
Promotion, NCID, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., M/S A-07, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, telephone 404/498-1182.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities, for both CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry.

    Dated: February 11, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-3424 Filed 2-17-04; 8:45 am]

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