title: How NHS trusts are tackling healthcare-associated infections.
abstract: The National Audit Office's third report on the Sreduction of healthcare-associated infection (HAl) rates, published last summer, examines: the extent and impact of HAls; the effectiveness, sustainability and cost of the Department of Health's approach to reducing HAl rates; the effectiveness of action taken in hospitals to prevent and control HAls, and how the barriers to improvement in reducing HAI rates can be overcome. This article reviews its findings and their implications for practice.
authors.affiliation: National Audit Office's Health Value for Money Audit.
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004739:England / Q000453:epidemiology; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008485:Medical Audit; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*