Preventing hospital infections : real-world problems, realistic solutions / Jennifer Meddings, Vineet Chopra, Sanjay Saint.
By: Saint, Sanjay [author.].
Contributor(s): Meddings, Jennifer [author.] | Chopra, Vineet [author.].
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, ©2021Edition: 2nd edition.Description: 253 pages.Content type: text Media type: computer ISBN: 9780197509159.Subject(s): Cross Infection -- prevention & control | Catheter-Related Infections -- prevention & control | Clostridium Infections -- prevention & control | Equipment Contamination -- prevention & control | Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient -- prevention & control | Infection Control Practitioners | Guideline AdherenceGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC683.5 .I5 2021 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000019146 |
Preceded by Preventing hospital infections / Sanjay Saint, Sarah L. Krein. 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An Effective Strategy to Combat Hospital Infections -- Committing to an Infection Prevention Initiative -- Types of Interventions: CAUTI -- Types of Interventions: CLABSI -- Building the Team -- The Importance of Leadership and Followership -- Common Problems, Realistic Solutions -- Joining a Collaborative -- Toward Sustainability -- Taking on Clostridioides difficile -- The Future of Infection Prevention.
"Healthcare-associated infection takes a heavy toll on patients, and negatively affects hospitals themselves, both financially and psychologically. Proven technical approaches to prevent infection have often faltered because of the failure of hospital staff to adopt them. This book focuses on these adaptive problems, particularly as experienced during efforts to combat catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). It provides a step-by-step description of a model quality improvement intervention, explaining why clinicians neglect or actively oppose such initiatives and how to change their minds. The focus is on preventing CAUTI, which has proven far more resistant to quality improvement efforts than CLABSI. The CAUTI intervention framework is also broadly applicable to a variety of other hospital issues including preventing falls and Clostridioides difficile infection. The solutions presented grow out of the extensive research by the clinical authors and their colleagues at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System"--