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Infection Prevention & Control

Setting standards in HAI prevention

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a threat to patient safety. They can affect patients in all healthcare settings, negatively impacting morbidity and mortality and the costs of care.[1-3] No one should catch an avoidable infection while receiving or giving health care.

Female nurse looks into the camera, arms bent forward, palms together with fingers clenched together..
Elderly man in front of mirror in privat bath room performing hear and head decolonization.
Female nurse standing at a table, opposite a small smiling boy. On the table is a small model ambulance being pushed by the woman, watched by the boy.  In the foreground a pack of Meliseptol Wipes.

References

  1. Stewart S, Robertson C, Kennedy S, Kavanagh K, Haahr L, Manoukian S, Mason H, Dancer S, Cook B, Reilly J. Personalized infection prevention and control: identifying patients at risk of healthcare-associated infection. J Hosp Infect. 2021 Aug;114:32-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2021.03.032. PMID: 34301394.
  2. World Health Organization. Report on the burden of endemic health care-associated infection worldwide. Geneva: WHO; 2011. Available at: http://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/80135 [last accessed December 2022]
  3. Graves N, Weinhold D, Tong E, Birrell F, Doidge S, Ramritu P, Halton K, Lairson D, Whitby M. Effect of healthcare-acquired infection on length of hospital stay and cost. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 Mar;28(3):280-92. doi: 10.1086/512642. Epub 2007 Feb 20. PMID: 17326018.