Our analysis of more than 650 000 patients admitted to Ontario's 159 acute care hospitals has documented wide variability in reported implementation of the selected understudied C. difficile infection-prevention processes, and found that none of these hospital processes were strongly associated with a patient's risk of acquiring C. difficile.
In this way, mentors also encouraged a team approach to address specific problem areas (e.g., equipment and supply logistics, infection prevention) and improve referral processes.
This should focus on the accessibility of services, the availability of services (staffing, opening hours, etc)., having adequate infrastructure (equipment, buildings, drugs, etc)., appropriate processes (infection prevention etc)., and management (staff workload, supportive supervision etc).
We hypothesized that process mapping infection prevention activities can help clinicians identify strategies for improving surgical safety.
Issues related mainly - for IDMM - to laboratories and infection prevention and control, vaccine availability, communication process (clinical practice guidelines' [CPG] dissemination, and communication routes), and with the overall management of the two pandemic waves.
The sampling process was anonymised, with no specific infection prevention interventions being initiated on the identification of a resident who was colonised.
Clostridium difficile is the most common cause of healthcare-acquired infection; the real-world impacts of some proposed C. difficile prevention processes are unknown.
A meaningful impact of these prevention processes could have been missed in our study if, for example, higher rates of infection have also prompted some hospitals to be more likely to implement these processes.
Although time consuming, the public vetting process provided transparency and a valuable opportunity for feedback from and acceptance by the infection prevention community.
Finally, an individual organization describes its CDS infrastructure, process of prioritization, design, and development, with selected highlights of CDS tools specifically targeting common infection prevention quality improvement initiatives.
