Hospital- and system-wide interventions for health care-associated infections: a systematic review.
Maurer NR, Hogan TH, Walker DM. Hospital- and system-wide interventions for health care-associated infections: a systematic review. Med Care Res Rev. 2021;78(6):643-659. doi:10.1177/1077558720952921.
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.