Preventing healthcare-associated infection in Switzerland: Results of a national survey

We assessed infection prevention in Swiss hospitals via a national survey focusing on infection prevention practices prior to a large national infection prevention initiative. Of the 59 hospitals that responded (77%), 98% had infection prevention teams and 40% very good or excellent leadership suppo...

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Autores principales: Sax, Hugo, Schreiber, Peter W., Clack, Lauren, Ratz, David, Saint, Sanjay, Greene, M. Todd, Kuster, Stefan P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32279671
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.351
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author Sax, Hugo
Schreiber, Peter W.
Clack, Lauren
Ratz, David
Saint, Sanjay
Greene, M. Todd
Kuster, Stefan P.
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description We assessed infection prevention in Swiss hospitals via a national survey focusing on infection prevention practices prior to a large national infection prevention initiative. Of the 59 hospitals that responded (77%), 98% had infection prevention teams and 40% very good or excellent leadership support. However, a minority of hospitals used recommended infection prevention practices and surveillance systems regularly.
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spelling pubmed-71992782020-05-08 Preventing healthcare-associated infection in Switzerland: Results of a national survey Sax, Hugo Schreiber, Peter W. Clack, Lauren Ratz, David Saint, Sanjay Greene, M. Todd Kuster, Stefan P. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication We assessed infection prevention in Swiss hospitals via a national survey focusing on infection prevention practices prior to a large national infection prevention initiative. Of the 59 hospitals that responded (77%), 98% had infection prevention teams and 40% very good or excellent leadership support. However, a minority of hospitals used recommended infection prevention practices and surveillance systems regularly. Cambridge University Press 2020-05 2020-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7199278/ /pubmed/32279671 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.351 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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