

![]() |
Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus |
|
Authors | ![]() | |
Published in | The Lancet. Infectious diseases. 2015, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 212-24 | |
Abstract | Despite control efforts, the burden of health-care-associated infections in Europe is high and leads to around 37,000 deaths each year. We did a systematic review to identify crucial elements for the organisation of effective infection-prevention programmes in hospitals and key components for implementation of monitoring. 92 studies published from 1996 to 2012 were assessed and ten key components identified: organisation of infection control at the hospital level; bed occupancy, staffing, workload, and employment of pool or agency nurses; availability of and ease of access to materials and equipment and optimum ergonomics; appropriate use of guidelines; education and training; auditing; surveillance and feedback; multimodal and multidisciplinary prevention programmes that include behavioural change; engagement of champions; and positive organisational culture. These components comprise manageable and widely applicable ways to reduce health-care-associated infections and improve patients' safety. | |
Keywords | Cross Infection/epidemiology/prevention & control — Europe/epidemiology — Hospitals — Humans — Infection Control/methods | |
Identifiers | PMID: 25467650 | |
Full text | ||
Structures | ||
Research group | Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330) | |
Citation (ISO format) | ZINGG, Walter et al. Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus. In: Lancet. Infectious diseases, 2015, vol. 15, n° 2, p. 212-24. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70854-0 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:73968 |