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Introduction: Improving Patient Safety Through Infection Control: A New Healthcare Imperative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Deborah S. Yokoe  and
David Classen
Deborah S. Yokoe
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospitaland Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
David Classen
Affiliation:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
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Abstract

Many healthcare organizations, professional associations, government and accrediting agencies, legislators, regulators, payers, and consumer advocacy groups have advanced the prevention of healthcare-associated infections as a national imperative, stimulating the creation of “A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals” in this supplement. In this introduction, we provide background and context and discuss the major issues that shaped the recommendations included in the compendium.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , supplement S1: A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals , October 2008 , pp. S3 - S11
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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