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Author Meddings, Jennifer, author.

Title Preventing hospital infections real-world problems, realistic solutions Jennifer Meddings, Vineet Chopra and Sanjay Saint
Edition Second edition
Published New York, NY Oxford University Press 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Preceded by Preventing hospital infections / Sanjay Saint, Sarah L. Krein. 2015
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2021)
Subject Nosocomial infections -- Prevention -- Management
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 Adherence
Form Electronic book
Author Chopra, Vineet, author.
Saint, Sanjay, author.
LC no. 2020047014
ISBN 9780197509180
0197509185
9780197509173
0197509177
9780197509166
0197509169