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Will the COVID-19 pandemic transform infection prevention and control in surgery? Seeking leverage points for organizational learning.
January 27, 2021
Toccafondi G, Di Marzo F, Sartelli M, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021;33(Supp 1):51-55.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on infection prevention efforts and healthcare-associated infections is unclear. This article discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to adaptations to infection prevention and control and surveillance (IPCS) practices and a human factors and ergonomics perspective in surgery. Leveraging lessons learned from the pandemic, the authors use a human factors perspective to propose an enhanced infection prevention and control approach to prevent surgical site infections.
