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Health Care–Associated Infections: Prevention Toolkits


Description

These toolkits were designed to reduce health care–associated infections (HAIs) that patients acquire during the course of receiving treatment for other conditions within a health care setting. The toolkits provide information on improvements in clinical practice, medical procedures, and the ongoing development of evidence-based infection control guidance and prevention successes to detect infections and develop new strategies to prevent health care–associated infections.

Toolkits are available on the following HAI topics:
  • Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
  • Clostridium difficile infections
  • Central line–associated bloodstream infections
  • Evaluating environmental cleaning
  • Long-term care
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections
  • Surgical site infections
Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/prevent/prevention_tools.html

Developer

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)

Funding Sources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


QualityTool Topic

Patient/Medication safety; Prevention and wellness; Quality improvement strategies


History

  • Release Date: 11/2010
  • Original Summary: 09/2011
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QualityTool Classification

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Last updated: October 12, 2011.