Doing Everything: Multimodal Intervention to Prevent Healthcare‐Associated Infections
This Whitepaper explores how a comprehensive approach to infection prevention and control can prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Multimodal interventions include a dedicated infection control team, risk assessment, active surveillance, isolation precautions, hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, antibiotic stewardship, and education and training.
- Healthcare reform is adding to the pressure to prevent healthcare-acquired infections.
- Many HAIs are preventable through evidence-based interventions.
- Controlling and preventing infections is the right thing to do for patients.
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