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Changing panorama for surveillance of device-associated healthcare infections: Challenges faced in implementation of current guidelines

Authors :
Renu Gupta
Sonal Saxena
Parwez
Sangeeta Sharma
Source :
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 36, Iss 1, Pp 18-25 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018.

Abstract

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are preventable in up to 30% of patients with evidence-based infection prevention and control (IPC) activities. IPC activities require effective surveillance to generate data for the HAI rates, defining priority areas, identifying processes amenable for improvement and institute interventions to improve patient's safety. However, uniform, accurate and standardised surveillance methodology using objective definitions can only generate meaningful data for effective execution of IPC activities. The highly exhaustive, complex and ever-evolving infection surveillance methodology pose a challenge for effective data capture, analysis and interpretation by ground level personnel. The present review addresses the gaps in knowledge and day-to-day challenges in surveillance faced by infection control team for effective implementation of IPC activities.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19983646 and 02550857
Volume :
36
Issue :
1
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....70ab37bd516e0e8b2647dd900c13f672