TY - JOUR AU - Jarvis, William R. T1 - Infection Control and Changing Health-Care Delivery Systems T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 170 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In the past, health care was delivered mainly in acute-care facilities. Today, health care is delivered in hospital, outpatient, transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home, and private office settings. Measures to reduce health-care costs include decreasing the number of hospitals and the length of patient stays, increasing outpatient and home care, and increasing long-term care for the elderly. The home-care industry and managed care have become major providers of health care. The role of specialists in health-care epidemiology has changed accordingly. KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0702.700170 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/2/70-0170_article ER - End of Reference