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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