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Hand Hygiene

Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 7A

Goal ImageInternational Patient Safety Goal 5A

SOL_image Improved Hand Hygiene to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infection (HAI) (PDF)

Getting Your Hands on a Culture of Safety
Making the Business Case for Infection Control
Infection Control in Medication Storage Bins
Empowering Patients and Families About Infection Control
Can Your Computer Keyboard Make Your Patients Sick?
JCI: An Active, Continuously Evolving Infection Control Program can Reduce Rates of Nosocomial MRSA by Targeted Sustained Actions
Australian National Guidelines for Infection Control
Clean Hands Save Lives Campaign
Hand Hygiene Tips for Healthcare workers
Clean Hands Help to Save Lives
Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health Care Settings
Infection Control: Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infection in Primary and Community Care
Performance Improvement in Infection Control—IC Makes Ideal Environment of Care PI Initiative
Infection Control Issues in the Environment of Care
Medical Equipment and Infection Control---Process Key in Handoff Between IC and Biomedical Engineering
The Facility Manager’s Role in Infection Control
Protecting Those Who Serve: Health Care Worker Safety (87-102)
Protecting Those Who Serve: Health Care Worker Safety (67-74)
NPSA (England) Patient Safety Alert on clean hands
Hand Hygiene Practices in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Multimodal Intervention and Impact on Nosocomial Infection
Focus on Five: Five Strategies to Comply with National Patient Safety Goal 7B
See also Human Factors/Hand Hygiene

Surgical Infection

Superficial infection
Deep infection
Infected prosthetic implant
IHI Surgical Site Infections - Practice Changes
Clinical Reference Manual: Surgical Infection Prevention

Vascular catheter-related

IHI: Implement the Central Line Bundle
CDC: Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
Case Study: Hospital Uses Education in QI Program to Reduce ICU Bloodstream Infection Rates
Care and Maintenance to Reduce Vascular Access Complications
Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
Blood Stream Infection Checklist

Ventilator-related

Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities
Improving Care for the Ventilated Patient
Preventing Ventilator Assisted Pneumonia
Care of the Ventilator Circuit and its relation to Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Patient Safety Tool : Ventilator Bundle
Prevent Central Line Infections: IHI Getting Started Kit

Health care-associated pneumonia

Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 10B

AHRQ Guidelines for preventing health-care--associated pneumonia
CDC Guidelines for preventing health-care-associated pneumonia

Urinary tract infection

Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Women Guidelines
Urinary Tract Infections Guidelines

Pressure ulcers

Goal ImageNational Patient Safety Goal 14A
IHI Getting Started Kit: Prevent Pressure Ulcers
Royal College of Nursing: Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: Pressure ulcer risk assessment and prevention - full guideline
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: Pressure ulcer management
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: Working together to prevent pressure ulcers - Guidance for Patients/Carers
Skin Safety Protocol: Risk Assessment and Prevention of Pressure Ulcers
Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk
A Historical Overview of Pressure Ulcer Literature of the Past 35 Years
European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Pressure Ulcer Prevention Guideline
Registered Nurse Association of Ontario: Risk Assessment & Prevention of Pressure Ulcers
IHI: Relieve the Pressure and Reduce Harm
IHI: Preventing Pressure Ulcers Turn Clock Tool
National Guideline Clearinghouse: Prevention of pressure ulcers
Pressure Ulcer Management Training Module
Knowledge of pressure ulcer prevention: a cross-sectional and comparative study among nurses
Minnesota Alliance for Patient Safety: Pressure Ulcer Prevention

Risk Assessment & Prevention of Pressure Ulcers Guideline
Pressure Ulcer Management Initiative
Improvement Report : Decreasing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
Cost Savings Through Bedsore Avoidance
Pressure Ulcer Therapy Companion

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