title: Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part XV: Preventing Infections Associated With Health Care.
abstract: Infections that are associated with health care are a major problem that results in many deaths, suffering, and a great deal of extra monetary costs. Fortunately, there is much that can be done to prevent these infections. This article is a brief introduction to prevention of some of the common hospital acquired infections, such as surgical site infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
authors.affiliation: From the Advanced Radiology Services and the Division of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, College of Human Services, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.
authors.forename: Jay A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Harolds
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D053717:Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated / Q000517:prevention & control; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012449:Safety