title: A bundle strategy including patient hand hygiene to decrease clostridium difficile infections.
abstract: Prevention strategies for Clostridium difficile infection traditionally have addressed barrier precautions, environmental disinfection, and health care worker hand hygiene. When applied as a bundle, this approach has been used widely as an evidence-based strategy to prevent hospital-acquired C. difficile infection. Expanding the bundle to include patient hand hygiene is a nurse-driven approach to prevent C. difficile transmission.
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pokrywka
authors.forename: Jody
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Feigel
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grossberger
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hensler
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hensler
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D016360:Clostridioides difficile; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004203:Disinfection; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000379:methods; D063373:Hand Hygiene; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010414:Pennsylvania; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents