Pledge to ‘Break the Chain’ of Infectious Diseases
Oct. 17, 2016 ||Each year, APIC sponsors International Infection Prevention Week to highlight the importance of infection prevention in improving patient safety.
view more »Each year, APIC sponsors International Infection Prevention Week to highlight the importance of infection prevention in improving patient safety.
view more »International Infection Prevention Week, Oct. 18-24, raises awareness of patient and family engagement, hand hygiene in infection prevention and patient safety
view more »Recognizing its importance, many member hospitals have taken steps to improve hand hygiene among their staff, including by launching handwashing campaigns or by adopting tools to track compliance.
view more »MetroHealth's team-based Wash-In, Wash-Out program boosts hand hygiene compliance among staff and reduces hospital-acquired infections.
view more »Studies in the February 2014 issue of the American Journal of Infection Control discuss the state of infection prevention in U.S. hospitals and health care workers’ hand hygiene compliance.
view more »Participants shared successes and barriers and developed a plan for sustainability
view more »This is HHLN installment #6 of 6 During this webinar, HHLN participants: identified best methodology for sharing successes with other safety net hospitals developed appropriate next steps for success
view more »Participants discussed their observations and obtained TST training for data entry
view more »Participants discussed Just in Time Coaches, received additional TST training, and identified pilot units
view more »Topics included: team introductions, pre-work, the HHLN plan, and the TST tool
view more »Participants discussed their observations and identified next steps
view more »The Cleveland hospital achieved notable reductions in hospital-acquired infections through a program that deployed four teams to manage drivers of hand hygiene compliance.
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