Preventing Hospital Infections - Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions

Preventing Hospital Infections, Second Edition offers a step-by-step description of a quality improvement intervention as it might unfold in a model hospital, with practical guidance and newly updated topics including antimicrobial stewardship and tiered approaches to CAUTI, CLABSI, and CDI.

List of contents

• Preface


• About the Authors


• 1. An Effective Strategy to Combat Hospital Infections


• 2. Committing to an Infection Prevention Initiative


• 3. Types of Interventions: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection


• 4. Types of Interventions: Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection


• 5. Building the Team


• 6. The Importance of Leadership and Followership


• 7. Common Problems, Realistic Solutions


• 8. Joining a Collaborative


• 9. Toward Sustainability


• 10. Taking on Clostridioides difficile


• 11. The Future of Infection Prevention


• Appendices


• References


• Index

About the author

Jennifer Meddings, MD, MSc is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

Vineet Chopra, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Health System.

Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, MACP, is the Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Summary

Preventing Hospital Infections, Second Edition offers a step-by-step description of a quality improvement intervention as it might unfold in a model hospital, with practical guidance and newly updated topics including antimicrobial stewardship and tiered approaches to CAUTI, CLABSI, and CDI.

Product details

• Authors: Vineet Chopra, Jennifer Meddings, Jennifer (Associate Professor of Interna Meddings, Sanjay Saint, Saint Sanjay
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2021
• EAN: 9780197509159
• ISBN: 978-0-19-750915-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Infectious & contagious diseases, Clinical & internal medicine, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Clinical and internal medicine, Infectious and contagious diseases, Epidemiology and Medical statistics