Rewarding and recognizing frontline staff for success in infection prevention

Management practices help support efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Providing rewards and recognition to frontline staff is one management practice found to be in use by hospitals that are higher-performers in HAI prevention. Using data from interviews with hospital manager...

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Autores principales: Gaughan, Alice A., Walker, Daniel M., DePuccio, Matthew J., MacEwan, Sarah R., McAlearney, Ann Scheck
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7324333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32615231
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.208
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Sumario:Management practices help support efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Providing rewards and recognition to frontline staff is one management practice found to be in use by hospitals that are higher-performers in HAI prevention. Using data from interviews with hospital managers and frontline staff at 18 US hospitals, our study identifies how managers can use reward and recognition programs as motivational tools to sustain frontline HAI prevention efforts.

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