The Influence of Organizational Context on Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Efforts in Infection Prevention: A Multi-Center Qualitative Study.
Soc Sci Med
Patient safety is a healthcare priority worldwide, with most hospitals engaging in activities to improve care quality, safety and outcomes. Despite these efforts, we have limited understanding of why quality improvement efforts are successful in some hospitals...
Patient safety is a healthcare priority worldwide, with most hospitals engaging in activities to improve care quality, safety and outcomes. Despite these efforts, we have limited understanding of why quality improvement efforts are successful in some hospitals...
The Importance of Leadership in Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infection: Results of a Multi-Site Qualitative Study.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) is costly and causes substantial morbidity. We sought to understand why some hospitals were engaged in HAI prevention activities while others were not. Because preliminary data indicated that hospital leadership played an...
Healthcare-associated infection (HAI) is costly and causes substantial morbidity. We sought to understand why some hospitals were engaged in HAI prevention activities while others were not. Because preliminary data indicated that hospital leadership played an...
The Role of the “Champion” in Infection Prevention: Results from a Multi-site Qualitative Study.
Qual Saf Health Care
Although 20% or more of healthcare-associated infections can be prevented, many hospitals have not implemented practices known to reduce infections. We explored the types and numbers of champions who lead efforts to implement best practices to prevent...
Although 20% or more of healthcare-associated infections can be prevented, many hospitals have not implemented practices known to reduce infections. We explored the types and numbers of champions who lead efforts to implement best practices to prevent...
Translating Hospital-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention Research into Practice via the Bladder Bundle.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), a frequent health care–associated infection (HAI), is a costly and common condition resulting in patient discomfort, activity restriction, and hospital discharge delays. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), a frequent health care–associated infection (HAI), is a costly and common condition resulting in patient discomfort, activity restriction, and hospital discharge delays. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection and the Medicare Rule Changes.
Ann Intern Med
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection, a common and potentially preventable complication of hospitalization, is 1 of the hospital-acquired complications chosen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for which hospitals no longer receive...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection, a common and potentially preventable complication of hospitalization, is 1 of the hospital-acquired complications chosen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for which hospitals no longer receive...
How active resisters and organizational constipators affect health care-acquired infection prevention efforts.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf
As of October 2008, hospitals in the United States no longer receive Medicare reimbursement for certain types of health care-associated infection (HAI), thereby heightening the need for effective prevention efforts. The mere existence of evidence-based...
As of October 2008, hospitals in the United States no longer receive Medicare reimbursement for certain types of health care-associated infection (HAI), thereby heightening the need for effective prevention efforts. The mere existence of evidence-based...
A multicenter qualitative study on preventing hospital acquired urinary tract infection in US Hospitals.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Although urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common hospital-acquired infection, there is little information about why hospitals use or do not use a range of available preventive practices. We thus conducted a multicenter study to understand better how US...
Although urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common hospital-acquired infection, there is little information about why hospitals use or do not use a range of available preventive practices. We thus conducted a multicenter study to understand better how US...
Translating infection prevention evidence into practice using quantitative and qualitative research.
Am J Infect Control
Infection control professionals and hospital epidemiologists, using the valid methods of applied epidemiology–surveillance, benchmarking, intervention, evaluation–have largely been responsible for dramatically reducing the incidence of health...
Infection control professionals and hospital epidemiologists, using the valid methods of applied epidemiology–surveillance, benchmarking, intervention, evaluation–have largely been responsible for dramatically reducing the incidence of health...
