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National organizations endorse efforts to cut infection rates

Accreditation Connection, October 10, 2008

Healthcare groups this month threw their weight behind recommendations to improve efforts on the part of hospitals to prevent infections, the Boston Globe reports.

The guidelines focus on common issues in hospitals leading to infection: use and removal of catheters, hand hygiene, and cleaning intensive care patients. The guidelines are similar to those issued by a government advisory panel, but the groups involved in this month’s endorsement are pushing hospitals to apply these changes sooner.

The Joint Commission has posted to its site the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals, which focuses on the six most significant healthcare-associated infections (HAI).

The project is in association with the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Hospital Association, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control, and The Joint Commission. A related webcast is also available on the site.

Materials can be downloaded here. The webcast is available here. To read the full Globe story, click here.

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