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Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus

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Zingg, Walter, Holmes, Alison, Dettenkofer, Markus, Goetting, Tim, Secci, Federica, Clack, Lauren, Allegranzi, Benedetta, Magiorakos, Anna-Pelagia, Pittet, Didier·2015·The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Despite control efforts, the burden of health-care-associated infections in Europe is high and leads to around 37,000 deaths each year. We did a systematic review to identify crucial elements for the organisation of effective infection-prevention programmes in hospitals and key components for implementation of monitoring. 92 studies published from 1996 to 2012 were assessed and ten key components identified: organisation of infection control at the hospital level; bed occupancy, staffing, workload, and employment of pool or agency nurses; availability of and ease of access to materials and equipment and optimum ergonomics; appropriate use of guidelines; education and training; auditing; surveillance and feedback; multimodal and multidisciplinary prevention programmes that include behavioural change; engagement of champions; and positive organisational culture. These components comprise manageable and widely applicable ways to reduce health-care-associated infections and improve patients' safety.

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Authors
Zingg, W., Holmes, A., Dettenkofer, M., Goetting, T., Secci, F., Clack, L., Allegranzi, B., Magiorakos, A.-P., & Pittet, D.
Venue
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-02
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
212-224
ISSN
1473-3099 (ISSN-L)
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W2103695539
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499
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5
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5.03
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journal article
Language
en
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Zingg, W., Holmes, A., Dettenkofer, M., Goetting, T., Secci, F., Clack, L., Allegranzi, B., Magiorakos, A.-P., & Pittet, D. (2015). Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1473-3099(14)70854-0

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