Implementing strategies to prevent infections in acute-care settings.

This document introduces and explains common implementation concepts and frameworks relevant to healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention and control and can serve as a stand-alone guide or be paired with the "SHEA/IDSA/APIC Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2022 Updates," which contain technical implementation guidance for specific healthcare-associated infections. This Compendium article focuses on broad behavioral and socio-adaptive concepts and suggests ways that infection prevention and control teams, healthcare epidemiologists, infection preventionists, and specialty groups may utilize them to deliver high-quality care. Implementation concepts, frameworks, and models can help bridge the "knowing-doing" gap, a term used to describe why practices in healthcare may diverge from those recommended according to evidence.

SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant transmission and infection in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update.

Previously published guidelines have provided comprehensive recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The intent of this document is to highlight practical recommendations in a concise format designed to assist acute-care hospitals in implementing and prioritizing efforts to prevent methicillin-resistant (MRSA) transmission and infection. This document updates the "Strategies to Prevent Methicillin-Resistant Transmission and Infection in Acute Care Hospitals" published in 2014.

Antimicrobial stewardship: a collaborative partnership between infection preventionists and health care epidemiologists.

It is clear that the widespread and injudicious use of antimicrobials has greatly increased the presence of MDROs that threaten the health of all. There is worldwide acknowledgement that this threat is growing, and that prudent use of antimicrobials combined with infection prevention can prevent harm and improve patient safety. Antimicrobial stewardship programs must harness the talents of all members of the health care team to effectively identify the organism, determine its susceptibility, institute any precautions required, and prescribe the narrowest-acting antibiotic that will destroy it.

Preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in hospitals: an Executive Summary of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, Elimination Guide.

This article is an executive summary of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, Elimination Guide for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, including the 2009 California Supplement. Infection preventionists are encouraged to obtain the original, full-length Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, Elimination Guides for more thorough coverage of Staphylococcus aureus prevention.

Preventing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in long-term care facilities: an executive summary of the APIC Elimination Guide.

This article is an executive summary of the APIC Elimination Guide for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in long-term care facilities. Infection preventionists are encouraged to obtain the original, full-length APIC Elimination Guides for more thorough coverage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention in long-term care facilities.

Guidelines for animal-assisted interventions in health care facilities.

Many hospitals and long-term care facilities in North America currently permit animals to visit with their patients; however, the development of relevant infection control and prevention policies has lagged, due in large part to the lack of scientific evidence regarding risks of patient infection associated with animal interaction. This report provides standard guidelines for animal-assisted interventions in health care facilities, taking into account the available evidence.