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A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals.

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Yokoe, DS; Mermel, LA; Anderson, DJ; Arias, KM; Burstin, H; Calfee, DP; Coffin, SE; Dubberke, ER; Fraser, V; Gerding, DN; Griffin, FA; Lo, E ...
Published in: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
October 2008

Preventable healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in US hospitals. Preventing these infections is a national priority, with initiatives led by healthcare organizations, professional associations, government and accrediting agencies, legislators, regulators, payers, and consumer advocacy groups. To assist acute care hospitals in focusing and prioritizing efforts to implement evidence-based practices for prevention of HAIs, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Infectious Diseases Society of America Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee appointed a task force to create a concise compendium of recommendations for the prevention of common HAIs. This compendium is implementation focused and differs from most previously published guidelines in that it highlights a set of basic HAI prevention strategies plus special approaches for use in locations and/or populations within the hospital when infections are not controlled by use of basic practices, recommends that accountability for implementing infection prevention practices be assigned to specific groups and individuals, and includes proposed performance measures for internal quality improvement efforts.

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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

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EISSN

1559-6834

Publication Date

October 2008

Volume

29 Suppl 1

Start / End Page

S12 / S21

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Infection Control
  • Humans
  • Hospitals
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Cross Infection
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Yokoe, D. S., Mermel, L. A., Anderson, D. J., Arias, K. M., Burstin, H., Calfee, D. P., … Classen, D. (2008). A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 29 Suppl 1, S12–S21. https://doi.org/10.1086/591060
Yokoe, Deborah S., Leonard A. Mermel, Deverick J. Anderson, Kathleen M. Arias, Helen Burstin, David P. Calfee, Susan E. Coffin, et al. “A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29 Suppl 1 (October 2008): S12–21. https://doi.org/10.1086/591060.
Yokoe DS, Mermel LA, Anderson DJ, Arias KM, Burstin H, Calfee DP, et al. A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Oct;29 Suppl 1:S12–21.
Yokoe, Deborah S., et al. “A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals.Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, vol. 29 Suppl 1, Oct. 2008, pp. S12–21. Pubmed, doi:10.1086/591060.
Yokoe DS, Mermel LA, Anderson DJ, Arias KM, Burstin H, Calfee DP, Coffin SE, Dubberke ER, Fraser V, Gerding DN, Griffin FA, Gross P, Kaye KS, Klompas M, Lo E, Marschall J, Nicolle L, Pegues DA, Perl TM, Podgorny K, Saint S, Salgado CD, Weinstein RA, Wise R, Classen D. A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Oct;29 Suppl 1:S12–S21.
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Published In

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

DOI

EISSN

1559-6834

Publication Date

October 2008

Volume

29 Suppl 1

Start / End Page

S12 / S21

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Infection Control
  • Humans
  • Hospitals
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Epidemiology
  • Cross Infection
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences