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About APIC

APIC’s mission is to improve health and patient safety by reducing risks of infection and other adverse outcomes.  The Association’s more than 11,000 members have primary responsibility for infection prevention, control and hospital epidemiology in health care settings around the globe, and include nurses, epidemiologists, physicians, microbiologists, clinical pathologists, laboratory technologists and public health practitioners .  APIC advances its mission through education, research, collaboration, public policy, practice guidance and credentialing.

The organization, which is based in Washington, DC, is led by an elected board of members who volunteer their time and expertise.

APIC was conceived in 1972 in recognition of the need for an organized, systematic approach to the "control" of infections acquired as a result of hospitalization.¹  Originally called The Association for Practitioners in Infection Control, the name was changed to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. in 1994 to recognize the organization's maturation and evolution into the broader context of health care delivery in this country.  This includes the study of non-infectious adverse outcomes and the movement of care outside the traditional health care system, specifically the hospital.

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¹ Russell B. Excerpt from APIC history. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 1995;16:522-525.