Hospital- and system-wide interventions for health care-associated infections: a systematic review. | PSNet

Hospital- and system-wide interventions for health care-associated infections: a systematic review. | PSNet

Hospital- and system-wide interventions for healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review

Maurer NR, Hogan TH, Walker DM. Med Care Res Rev. 2020

This systematic review examined effectiveness of hospital- or system-wide interventions in reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The review identified several strategies for reducing HAIs, including enhanced environmental cleaning using disinfection technologies; EHR implementation; multimodal infection control programs; multichannel hand hygiene promotion; and hospital-wide cultural transformations. The review identifies approaches meriting additional research and exploration.