Improving patient safety through infection control: a new healthcare imperative.
Many healthcare organizations, professional associations, government and accrediting agencies, legislators, regulators, payers, and consumer advocacy groups have advanced the prevention of healthcare-associated infections as a national imperative, stimulating the creation of "A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals" in this supplement. In this introduction, we provide background and context and discuss the major issues that shaped the recommendations included in the compendium.
Yokoe
Deborah S
DS
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Classen
David
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D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011159:Population Surveillance