What’s New in the Patient Safety World

June 2014

Updated HAI Prevention Guidelines from SHEA/IDSA

 

 

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and other collaborators have just released the SHEA/IDSA Practice Recommendations for prevention of CAUTI (catheter-associated urinary tract infections), SSI’s (surgical site infections), and C. diff infections. These are updates of previous recommendations that were published in 2008. Each has an extensive bibliography with links you can click on to take you to most of the source articles.

 

You’ll find these updates to be evidence-based, comprehensive, and practical.

 

 

References:

 

 

Lo E, Nicolle LE, Coffin SE, et al. Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2014; 35(5): 464-479 May 2014

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675718

 

 

Anderson D, Podgornny K, Berrios-Torres S, et al. Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2014; 35(6): 605-627 (June 2014) electronically published May 5, 2014

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/676022

 

 

Dubberke ER, Carling P, Carrico R, et al. Strategies to Prevent Clostridium difficile Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2014; 35(6): 628-645 (June 2014) electronically published May 5, 2014

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/676023

 

 

 

 

 

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