title: Implementing strategic bundles for infection prevention and management.
abstract: Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are considered to be the most frequent adverse event in healthcare delivery. Active efforts to curb HAI have increased across Europe thanks to the growing emphasis on patient safety and quality of care. Recently, there has been dramatic success in improving the quality of patient care by focusing on the implementation of a group or "bundle" of evidenced-based preventive practices to achieve a better outcome than when implemented individually. The project entitled IMPLEMENT is designed to spread and test knowledge on how to implement strategic bundles for infection prevention and management in a diverse sample of European hospitals. The general goal of this project is to provide evidence on how to decrease the incidence of HAI and to improve antibiotic use under routine conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hulscher
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wollersheim
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Huis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borg
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Scicluna
authors.forename: M-L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palomar
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tacconelli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: De Angelis
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schumacher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolkewitz
authors.forename: E-M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Kleissle
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Frank
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000592:standards; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005060:Europe; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D061214:Patient Safety; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents