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Healthcare Environment and Infection Control
Published in Herman Koren, Best Practices for Environmental Health, 2017
Establish an infection control committee which meets regularly and on an emergency basis when needed to: review epidemiological surveillance data from all areas of the institution; review case histories of patients and/or employees with healthcare-associated infections; establish a baseline of data concerning healthcare-associated infections and compare to national CDC data to see where the individual institution actually stands in relation to other institutions and the amount of infections present; determine critical areas for use of intensive preventive and control techniques; develop appropriate training measures for all levels of personnel and ensure that the training results in reduced levels of infections; and provide a comprehensive infection control manual.
Emergency Department Design in Response to Pandemics
Published in AnnaMarie Bliss, Dak Kopec, Architectural Factors for Infection and Disease Control, 2023
The infection control strategies were classified based on airflow type (mechanical or natural airflow) and air filtration, hygiene, and personal protective equipment (PPE), cleaning protocol, access control, point-of-care testing/supply, cohort separation, and distancing. The design strategies for infection control were also organized by each step of patient care (i.e., patient arrival/pre-triage, screening, triage, waiting, treatment, and disposition; Table 10.4).
Significance of multi-site calibration for agent-based transmission models
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2018
Sean L. Barnes, Daniel J. Morgan, Lisa Pineles, Anthony D. Harris
The prevailing sentiment among infection control experts is that many of these infections are preventable if proper infection control practices are administered (Harbarth, Sax, and Gastmeier, 2003; Umscheid et al., 2011; Yokoe et al., 2008). For example, adequate hand-hygiene compliance is the hallmark of infection control, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has defined five moments of opportunity at which healthcare workers should wash their hands in order to sufficiently mitigate the risk of transmission from one patient to the next (Sax et al., 2009). As another example, additional measures are often put in place for patients who have a prior history of colonization or infection, an increased risk for becoming colonized or developing an infection, or have been identified as asymptomatic carriers of infection-inducing organisms via diagnostic screening. In acute-care hospitals, patients colonized with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are placed on contact precautions—which require healthcare workers to wear gloves and a gown during each visit—effectively creating a barrier that reduces the likelihood of transmission (Siegel, Rhinehart, Jackson, Chiarello, and Health Care Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, 2007).